No Longer at Ease

No Longer At Ease is a 1960 novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. It is the story of an Ibo (also spelled Igbo) man, Obi Okonkwo, who leaves his village for a British education and a job in the Nigerian colonial civil service, but who struggles to adapt to a Western lifestyle and ends up taking a bribe. The novel is the sequel to Achebe's Things Fall Apart, which concerned the struggle of Obi Okonkwo's father against the changes brought by the English.

Related Topics:
1960 - Nigerian - Chinua Achebe - Ibo (also spelled Igbo) - British - Colonial - Civil service - Bribe - Things Fall Apart - English

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