“When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun.”
Source: No Longer at Ease (1960), Chapter 10 (p. 95)
Quotes from book
No Longer at Ease
No Longer at Ease is a 1960 novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. It is the story of an Igbo man, Obi Okonkwo, who leaves his village for an education in Britain and then a job in the Nigerian colonial civil service, but is conflicted between his African culture and Western lifestyle and ends up taking a bribe. The novel is the second work in what is sometimes referred to as the "African trilogy", following Things Fall Apart and preceding Arrow of God. Things Fall Apart concerns the struggle of Obi Okonkwo's grandfather Okonkwo against the changes brought by the English.
Source: No Longer at Ease (1960), Chapter 9 (p. 87)
“A man who lived on the banks of the Niger should not wash his hands with spittle.”
Source: No Longer at Ease (1960), Chapter 1 (p. 17)
Source: No Longer at Ease (1960), Chapter 5 (p. 57)
Source: No Longer at Ease (1960), Chapter 5 (pp. 43–44)
