Obi Okonkwo is the fictional protagonist of Chinua Achebe's 1960 novel No Longer at Ease, the second book of his African trilogy after Things Fall Apart. He is an Igbo man from the village of Umuofia in colonial Nigeria, sent to England on a scholarship funded by the Umuofia Progressive Union, and he returns to work as a civil servant in Lagos. Around twenty-five, he is the first recipient of that scholarship, raised by community members who hoped he would bring