Chinua achebe no longer at ease
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No Longer at Ease
1960 novel by Chinua Achebe
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 Nigeriacivil service, but is conflicted between his African culture and Western lifestyle and ends up taking a bribe.
The novel is the second book of Achebe and second work in the "African trilogy"; following Things Fall Apart and preceding Arrow of God.
Chinua achebe no longer at ease
Title
The book's title was taken from the closing lines of T. S. Eliot's poem, "Journey of the Magi":
We returned to our places, these Kingdoms,
But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation,
With an alien people clutching their gods.
I should be glad of another death.
Plot summary
The novel begins with the trial of Obi Okonkwo on the charge of accepting a bribe. It then jumps back in time to a point before his departure for England and works its way forward to describe how Obi ende