The African Trilogy

Things Fall Apart tells the story of Okonkwo, a respected warrior and leader in the Igbo village of Umuofia in Nigeria. Determined to distance himself from the perceived weakness of his father, Okonkwo builds his life around strength, discipline, and...

When Things Fall Apart ends, colonial rule has been introduced to Umuofia, and the character of the nation, its values, freedoms, religious and socio-political foundations have substantially and irrevocably been altered. Arrow of God, the second...

When Obi Okonkwo, grandson of Okonkwo, the main character in *Things Fall Apart*, returns to Nigeria from England in the 1950s, his foreign education separates him from his African roots. *No Longer at Ease*, the third and concluding novel in Chinua...