NO LONGER AT EASE

154pp., paperback, Reprint, London, (1963) 2010

ISBN: 9780141191553

The second novel in the African trilogy by Nigerian novelist, poet, academic and critic Chinua Achebe (1930-2013). The other two novels are Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God. 

Obi Okonkwo, an Igbo man, leaves his village for an education in Britain. He the enters the colonial Nigerian civil service. Torn between his African culture and a Western lifestyle, he ends up taking a bribe.