Study Guide

No Longer At Ease Characters

By Chinua Achebe

The first chapter opens with Obi Okonkwo's trial; he is being charged with corruption and with...

Obi first meets Clara at a dance in England. She is so beautiful that he becomes awkward around...

Anybody who read Things Fall Apart will recognize Isaac Okonkwo (called Nwoye before he converted...

Hannah Okonkwo is Obi's mother. She is obedient to her husband Isaac's decree that they forsake...

Joseph is Obi's friend and kinsmen. He shows Obi the ropes in Lagos before he leaves for Nigeria,...

Christopher is another one of Obi's friends. We don't know much about Christopher except that he...

Mr. Green, a civil servant, is something of a contradiction. On the one hand, he doesn't seem to...

Marie Tomlinson is Mr. Green's secretary. Young, pretty, and European, Marie becomes friends with...