Verified Purchase. Achebe is a master in portraying Nigerian society in transition, amid corruption, violence and the excitement of development. In this novel, Achebe portrays a schoolteachers that is first welcomed into a politician's home, then gets angered by him when the politician "steals" his www.doorway.ru by: Published, prophetically, just days before Nigeria’s first attempted coup in , A Man of the People is an essential part of Achebe’s body of work. About A Man of the People From the renowned author of The African Trilogy, a political satire about an unnamed African country navigating a path between violence and corruptionPages: Our hero Odili Samalu is ambitious, and as his life becomes entwined with Nanga’s, his sense of ambition Chinua Achebe’s novella, A Man of the People, was selected by Anthony Burgess as one of the best novels in English since So reading this work one comes with high expectations/5.
Complete summary of Chinua Achebe's A Man of the People. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of A Man of the People. A Man of the People was written by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe in The book is narrated by Odili, a young teacher in an unnamed African country run by greedy and corrupt politicians. His own former teacher, referred to as both "Mr. Nanga" and "Chief Nanga," is now an elected official and the Minister of Culture of the country. Chinua Achebe () was born in www.doorway.ru considered to be the father of modern African literature, he is best known for his masterful African Trilogy, consisting of Things Fall Apart, Arrow of God, and No Longer at www.doorway.ru trilogy tells the story of a single Nigerian community over three generations from first colonial contact to urban migration and the breakdown of traditional.
A Man of the People. Chinua Achebe. Anchor Books, - Fiction - pages. 6 Reviews. From the renowned author of The African Trilogy, a political satire about an unnamed African country. Published, prophetically, just days before Nigeria's first attempted coup in , A Man of the People is an essential part of Achebe’s body of work. Related collections and offers. Product Details. About the Author. Chinua Achebe A Man of the People First published in For Chris CHAPTER ONE No one can deny that Chief the Honourable M.A. Nanga, M.P., was the most approachable politician in the country. Whether you asked in the city or in his home village, Anata, they would tell you he was a man of the people.
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