hi, i'm accually studying this novel and i think i have an answer for you. there is no explicit quote or sth that can testify my answer but anyway ill try. so as u may know, women in "Things Fall Apart" are not really respected; being a woman is being weak, feminism is always related to sth negative. women are almost never called by their names accually, but by the status they occupy in the society so a woman is more or less respected when whe give birth (her husband may sacrifice a goat for her if she gets 3 boys succesively). so to answer your question, Nwoye's mother is not called by her name, because for the society it's more imoprtant being a mother than a wife or simply a woman.
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