Authors : Abhijeet Dawle
DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.16928040
Volume : 4
Issue : 1
Year : 2015
Page No : 1-5
No Longer at Ease, which received the Nigerian National Trophy for literature, focuses on a young Nigerian man, Obi Okonkwo, who has lost connection with his African tradition and develops almost an extreme dislike for the ruling privileged of which he is a part. After going away to England to get an education he wishes he can help all Nigerians, he returns home and finds helpless. Because of walls set in front of him such as, the neo colonial values of the Europeans, he wasn’t able to do the things he wanted to do for his people. So most of the African nations that became independent in the nineteen-sixties could only fly flags of political independence. Their economies were dependent on Europe. The movement of independence brought in only a change of masters. With the arrival of the White man there is a loss of indigenous values such as communal harmony, placing society above self, respect for old and worship for achievers, which resulted in the lack of self analysis and a stable code of moral values in the society of pre independent Nigeria. Tempted by western education and well-paid employment, the youth of the nation do not hesitate to bend down to the levels of corruption and dangerous non-judgmental attitude.