Things Fall Apart

From the text:

There was a wealthy man in Okonkwo's village who had three huge barns, nine wives and thirty children. His name was Nwakibie and he had taken the highest but one title which a man could take in the clan. It was for this man that Okonkwo worked to earn his first seed yams.

The text describes Nwakibie as a wealthy man with multiple wives, the ability to take on help, seed yams for procurement.