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.

Title

The book's title comes from the closing lines of T.S. Eliot's poem, "The Journey of the Magi:"

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T.S. Eliot's - The Journey of the Magi

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But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation,

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With an alien people clutching their gods.

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I should be glad of another death.

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