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"That was Obi’s mistake Number One. Everybody expected a young man from England to be impressively turned-out.”"
No Longer at EaseE no be like dat ... Him na gentleman. No fit take bribe. — No Longer at Ease
"E no be like dat ... Him na gentleman. No fit take bribe."
No Longer at Ease
No Longer at Ease
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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
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