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No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe

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Author Biography

Name: Chinua Achebe
Birth Date: November 15, 1930
Place of Birth: Ogidi, Nigeria
Nationality: Nigerian
Gender: Male
Occupations: novelist

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Biography of Chinua Achebe
1048 words, approx. 3.5 pages
Chinua Achebe (born 1930) is one of the foremost Nigerian novelists. His novels are primarily directed to an African audience, but their psychological insights have gained them universal acceptance. Chinua Achebe was born into an Ibo family on Nov. 15, 1...
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Biography of Chinua Achebe
10126 words, approx. 33.8 pages
Chinua Achebe is arguably the most discussed African writer of his generation. His first novel, Things Fall Apart (1958), has become a classic. It has been read and discussed by readers throughout the anglophone world and has been translated into some fo...
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Biography of (Albert) Chinua(lumogu) Achebe
8479 words, approx. 28.3 pages
Chinua Achebe is arguably the most discussed African writer of his generation. His first novel, Things Fall Apart (1958), has become a classic. It has been read and discussed by readers throughout the anglophone world and has been translated into some fo...


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No Longer at Ease Information
704 words, approx. 2 pages
No Longer At Ease is a 1960 novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. It is the story of an Igbo (also spelled Ibo) man, Obi Okonkwo, who leaves his village for a British education and a job in the Nigerian colonial civil service, but who struggles to...


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Orange County Business Journal
Companies held products longer, eased credit in past year
08/26/2002: 702 words, approx. 2 pages
Most Orange County companies saw their cash operating cycles-the time from spending money 'to make a product to getting paid for it-grow in the past year, according to a survey done for the Business Journal. The increase suggests companies had a harder time...
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The Washington Post
Permission No Longer Needed for Photography; Developer Eases Downtown Policy
07/01/2007: 463 words, approx. 2 pages
The developer of downtown Silver Spring has backed off its policy of forbidding photography in the area without its explicit permission, but local photo enthusiasts are not satisfied. A debate over the protection of civil liberties in public- private partnerships ignited when a...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by John Coleman
466 words, approx. 2 pages
Obi, the educated young Nigerian hero [of No Longer at Ease], sits in a government office in Lagos and reflects on his English boss:
He must have come originally with an ideal—to bring light to the heart of darkness, to tribal head-hunters performing weird ceremonies and unspeakable rites. But when he arrived Africa played him false. Where was his beloved bush full of human sacrifices?
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Critical Essay by Robert C. Healey
395 words, approx. 1 pages
["No Longer at Ease"] is the bourgeois tragedy, African style, of the promising young urban executive who succumbs to temptation when he is no longer able to keep up appearances and make ends meet. Obi Okonkwo, the mixed-up young hero who is no longer at ease, is the grandson of the tough tribal chief who fought to the death against the white man and his ways in Chinua Achebe's first novel, "Things Fall Apart." Unlike his single-minded grandfather, Obi has become thoroughl...


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