![]() ![]() ![]() Picture this: you wake up one day and decide that nobody should pay with American currency anymore. What is No Longer At Ease About and Why Should I Care? We learn how one young man, despite his pure ideals, will never be a match against a system of power that relies on corruption and bribery. But due to his own pride and lack of foresight, he soon becomes involved in corruption himself. No Longer At Ease is the story of how a young, educated Nigerian man returns home from university education abroad, certain that young men like himself can and will eliminate corruption as they replace the older, uneducated and corrupt Africans who make up the civil workforce. (The third novel in the series, Arrow of God, is set in the period between pacification and independence, depicting the long, slow death of Igbo culture during colonialism.) This second novel vividly demonstrates the moral destruction colonialism wreaked on Igbo society and culture. No Longer At Ease is set at the brink of Nigeria's independence, some sixty-plus years later. The first novel, Things Fall Apart, details the period leading up to "pacification," the moment when British colonizers violently took control of southern Nigeria. ![]() Published in 1960, the year of Nigeria's independence, No Longer At Ease is the second novel in Chinua Achebe's trilogy that explores Nigeria's history through fiction. ![]()
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