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A Man of the People

by Chinua Achebe

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Nigerian politics of the early 1960s.

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A Man of the People

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1966

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Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels (1966)

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"No one can deny that Chief the Honourable M. A. Nanga, M.P., was the most approachable politician in the country..."

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By the renowned author of Things Fall Apart, this novel foreshadows the Nigerian coups of 1966 and shows the color and vivacity as well as the violence and corruption of a society making its own way between the two worlds.

(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:11 -0400)

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