fiction literature · 1969
No Longer at Ease
1969 novel by Chinua Achebe
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Summary
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, but is conflicted between his African culture 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.
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