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African Writers Series · AWS 31 · 1966
A Man of the People
Chinua Achebe · AWS 31 · Heinemann Educational Books
About this Title
A Man of the People (1966) is Chinua Achebe's fourth novel, a sharp political satire set in a fictional West African state. Published on the eve of the first Nigerian military coup, the novel's ending — depicting a coup — was read as prophetic when the coup actually occurred days after publication.
