A review by jstrahan
No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe

4.0

We now follow the grandson of “Things fall Apart”’s Okonkwo, Obi, who comes from a now very different Nigeria. Having been sent abroad to study in England and come back to work as a civil servant in Lagos, the book explores his attempts to keep his intellectual idealism in the face of the corruption of real world financial systems. It doesn’t have the punch of the first books phenomenal final chapter, in fact this book starts with the ending then loops back around, and I found I got much more catharsis from reading the first chapter again straight after finishing. As the title suggests, rather than the first books distilled anger, this book leaves you with a creeping uneasiness, as you wonder whether it was ever possible for Obi not to end up in the position he does.