A Man of the People

Chinua Achebe

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UPC:
9780385086165
Binding:
Paperback
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Publication Date:
1/19/1989
Release Date:
8/16/2016
Author:
Chinua Achebe
Language:
english
Edition:
Reissue
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From the renowned author of The African Trilogy, a political satire about an unnamed African country navigating a path between violence and corruption

As Minister for Culture, former school teacher M. A. Nanga is a man of the people, as cynical as he is charming, and a roguish opportunist. When Odili, an idealistic young teacher, visits his former instructor at the ministry, the division between them is vast. But in the eat-and-let-eat atmosphere, Odili's idealism soon collides with his lustsand the two men's personal and political tauntings threaten to send their country into chaos. When Odili launches a vicious campaign against his former mentor for the same seat in an election, their mutual animosity drives the country to revolution.

Published, prophetically, just days before Nigeria's first attempted coup in 1966,A Man of the Peopleis an essential part of Achebes body of work.