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
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Achebe in Lagos, 1966; eight years after the publication of Things Fall Apart
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
Things Fall Apart
…Achebe was working at the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation, it was first published in London by Heinemann on 17 June 1958. It was later followed by No Longer at Ease in 1960 and Arrow of God in 1964, which together make up the "African trilogy". The novel's title was taken from a verse of "The Second Coming", a 1919…
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