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Published in 1958, the novel provides an interesting reflection of the issues that Nigeria would face once it became an independent and was no longer subject to British rule. Achebe does a nice job of showing the difficulty of balancing local tradition and custom versus assimilation with the rest of the world by focusing on an unlikely protagonist in the book, Okonkwo, and his attempts to stand up to the changes that the white man brings to Nigeria.

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