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A Man of the People Study Guide

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by Chinua Achebe
About 60 pages (17,846 words)
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"It was at this point that I first noticed a new, dangerous and sinister note in the universal outcry. "The Daily Chronicle, an official organ of the P.O.P., had pointed out in an editorial that the Miscreant Gang, as the dismissed ministers were now called, we all university people and highly educated professional men. (I have preserved a cutting of that editorial.)" Chapter 1, p. 4.

"'Minister or no minister,' he said, 'a man who is my senior must still be my senior. Other ministers and other people may do otherwise but my motto is: Do the right and shame the Devil.' "Somehow I found myself admiring the man for his lack of modesty. For what is modesty but inverted pride? We all think we are first-class people." Chapter 1, p. 11.

"'Actually it's more than that. He.....

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