No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe (the author of Things Fall Apart) (Paperback)

from KurtWombat

NO LONGER AT EASE is a beautifully realized tug-of-war with a human being as the rope. Obi Okonkwo returns to Africa after being educated in England thinking that he pretty much knows who he is. The ease with which he defines himself is tested as soon as he gets off the boat and begins his new li...

from Limelite

Obi is on trial for accepting a bribe. Achebe examines his life and themes of colonial and post colonial relationships between Nigerians and the white English as well as the conflict between tribal/clan loyalties, traditions, and Western culture impinging on the lives of him, his family, and his ...

from amurphy

Sequal to Things Fall Apart. Obi Okonkwo, grandson to Okonkwo, returns to Nigera after four years of education in England. Finding a job within the government, he finds himself in between two worlds, the traditions of his people clashing with the expectations of an evolving society. An excellent ...

from Crazymamie

This is the second book in Achebe's African Trilogy. The main character in this book, Obi Okonkwo, is the grandson of Okonkwo, the main character from the first book, Things Fall Apart. I did not like this book as well as the first one, but it is still very good and definitely worth the time it t...

from Isgodchekhov

Na so dis world be... Since it has a bearing on my review of Chinua Achebe's 1960 follow up novel to his monumental first work, Things Fall Apart, I will confess here that my first reaction to reading Thing's Fall Apart was a shrug of my mind's shoulders...It struck me then as a tragic story admi...