No Longer at Ease is a novel by Chinua Achebe about Obi Okonwa. Obi manages to go to school in England, returning afterwards to colonial Nigeria to work for the Scholarship Board. He refuses bribes from many people until his outcast lover, Clara Okeke, leaves him after an abortion. His mother dies and he falls into debt, and so begins to take bribes. The last bribe he decides to take is part of a sting operation. Obi is arrested and is tried for corruption.
Obi nkwo an Igbo villager who through a community scholarship given to him by the Umofia Progressive Union UPU is sent to England to attain the only hope of advancement in the colony a European education Upon his return he settles into a senior government post which he eventually loses to corruption by an acceptance of bribery After Obi is caught and is facing trial for bribery The Umofia Progressive Union describes obi as A man who runs after sweet things of Lagos This paper will therefore dis
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