- Politicians, Fiction, Fiction (fictional works by one author), Nigeria, fiction
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Classical in form, cool, prestige and ironic.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Chinua Achebe
- First published
- 1966
- Pages
- 150
- Publisher
- Anchor Canada, HarperCollins Publishers, Doubleday, 1967.
- Editions
- 40
- Language
- English, urd, Spanish, swa
- ISBN
- 9788499085869
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First sentence
“No one can deny that Chief the Honourable M. A. Nanga, M.P., was the most approachable politician in the country.”
About Chinua Achebe · 1930–2013
Africa's most famous and illustrious black novelist. Nigerian born writer of powerful fiction, poetry, literary criticism, and children's books
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