What motivates Okonkwo to behave in the manner he behaves in relation to Ekwefi?

Okonkwo takes great pride in her daughter and believes that he is the child that best knows his own thoughts. She is the first surviving daughter with his wife Ekwefi.

Okonkwo often wishes Ezinma were a boy.

He is inwardly fond of her; her beauty is like her mother's was when she was the Village Beauty.