No Longer at Ease
No Longer at Ease
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 Nigeria civil service, but is conflicted between his African culture and Western lifestyle and ends up taking a bribe. The novel is the third book of Achebe and third work in the "African trilogy"; following Things Fall A
"It was clear he loved Africa, but only Africa of a kind: the Africa of Charles, the messenger, the Africa of his gardenboy and steward boy. He must have come originally with an ideal –to bring light into the heart of darkness..."
No Longer at Ease"We are sending you to learn book. Enjoyment can wait. Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world.”"
No Longer at Ease"His full name was Obiajulu—the mind at last is at rest."
No Longer at Ease"Everybody wondered why. The learned judge, as we have seen, could not comprehend how an educated young man and so on and so forth."
No Longer at Ease"Mr. Okonkwo believed utterly and completely in the things of the white man. And the symbol of white man’s power was the written word, or better still, the printed word."
No Longer at Ease"Take this matter of twenty pounds ... which ... was the root cause of all his troubles."
No Longer at Ease"You know book, but this is no matter for book."
No Longer at Ease"In that short question he said in effect that Obi’s mission-house upbringing and European education had made him a stranger in his country –the most painful thing one could say to Obi."
No Longer at Ease"Greatness is now in the things of the white man."
No Longer at Ease"Obi wanted to rush out of his car and shout: “Stop. Let’s go and get married now,” but he couldn’t and didn’t. The doctor’s car drove away."
No Longer at Ease"What would be the point of going to Umuofia? She would have been buried by the time he got there anyway."
No Longer at Ease"They were the good servants who had found perfect freedom."
No Longer at Ease
