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Achebe, Chinua.
A Man of the People.
Publisher: Heinemann, London;
Date of Publication: 1966
Stock Code: 15146
First edition. Octavo, pp., [6], 166, [2]. Publisher’s original red cloth, titled in gilt to spine, in the original dust-jacket designed by Edward Tan. Toning to spine-panel, a little soiling to edges of jacket. Cloth and gilt bright, corners sharp, binding strong and square. Contents clean and bright. A near-fine copy in excellent jacket. The first edition of Achebe’s first novel after ‘the African trilogy’, which shifted the focus of his work from specific Igbo communities to a more wide-ranging African literature. A satire on African politics, A Man of the People charts the rise of a charismatic former schoolteacher-turned-politician who becomes embroiled in corruption and eventually instigates a military coup. Written before the coup in Nigeria, fellow author John Pepper Clark remarked of the novel ‘Chinua, I know you are a prophet. Everything in this book has happened except a military coup!’. £200.00