He remains intent on marrying Clara, but even his Christian father opposes, albeit reluctantly due to his desire to progress and eschew the "heathen" customs of pre-colonial Nigeria. When Obi indignantly rejects the offer, he is visited by the girl herself, who implies that she will bribe him with sexual favors for the scholarship, another offer Obi rejects.Īt the same time, Obi is developing a romantic relationship with Clara who reveals that she is an osu, an outcast by her descendants, meaning that Obi cannot marry her under the traditional ways of the Igbos.
He takes a job with the Scholarship Board and is almost immediately offered a bribe by a man who is trying to obtain a scholarship for his sister. Obi returns to Nigeria after four years of studies and lives in Lagos with his friend Joseph.
However, Obi switches his major to English and meets Clara Okeke, a student nurse, for the first time during a dance. The members of the Umuofia Progressive Union (UPU), a group of Umuofia natives who have left their villages to live in major Nigerian cities, have taken up a collection to send Obi to England to study Law, in the hope that he will return to help his people by representing them in the colonial legal system, particularly with respect to land cases. It then jumps back in time to a point before his departure for England and works its way forward to describe how Obi ended up on trial. The novel begins with the trial of Obi Okonkwo on the charge of accepting a bribe. With an alien people clutching their gods. We returned to our places, these Kingdoms,īut no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation, The book's title comes from the closing lines of T. Things Fall Apart concerns the struggle of Obi Okonkwo's grandfather Okonkwo against the changes brought by the British. The novel is the second work in what is sometimes referred to as the "African trilogy", following Things Fall Apart and preceding Arrow of God, though Arrow of God chronologically precedes it in the chronology of the trilogy. 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 Nigerian colonial civil service, but is conflicted between his African culture and Western lifestyle and ends up taking a bribe. No Longer at Ease is a 1960 novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe.
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