About the book
Obi Okonkwo leaves his village for four years of study in England, funded by the Umuofia Progressive Union, and returns as the educated elite expected to change Nigeria. Instead, he collides with bribery, tradition and a love his family cannot accept. Achebe's sequel to Things Fall Apart is a piercing study of a man caught between two worlds — and of how good intentions quietly give way.
Why we recommend it
Achebe follows Obi Okonkwo, a promising young Nigerian educated in England, as he returns home full of ideals — and watches those ideals erode under the weight of family expectation, money and love. Quiet, devastating and still urgently relevant sixty years on.
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