No Longer at Ease
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No Longer at Ease is a 1960 novel by Chinua Achebe. It is the story of an Igbo man, Obi Okonkwo, who leaves his village for an education in Britain and then a job in the Colonial Nigeria civil service
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Things Fall Apart
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Things Fall Apart is the 1958 debut novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. Set in Colonial Nigeria, it portrays the story of Okonkwo, a traditional and influential leader of the fictional Igbo clan o
No Longer at Ease
…and Western lifestyle and ends up taking a bribe. The novel is the second novel by Achebe, and the second work in his "African trilogy", following Things Fall Apart and preceding Arrow of God. The book's title was taken from the closing lines of T. S. Eliot's poem, "Journey of the Magi…
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Achebe in Lagos, 1966; eight years after the publication of Things Fall Apart