The book's title comes from the closing lines of T. S. Eliot's poem, "Journey of the Magi":
We returned to our places, these Kingdoms,But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation,With an alien people clutching their gods.I should be glad of another death.
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The Question and Answer section for No Longer at Ease is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
Even though the subject of colonialism is not specifically dealt with in this novel, it is still pervasive and significant. The events of the novel take place in the last days of the British reign in Nigeria and reveal the tensions present between...
I see no evidence of a proverb mentioned in Chapter Fifteen. I do see a story told by Chrostopher;
'There was one woman in my place who returned from market one day and found that her two children had fallen into a well and drowned. She wept...
Clara felt abandoned, burdened, and hopeless.
Obi suffers from guilt and indecisiveness.
