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Obi was away ∈England for a little under
four years. He sometimes found it difficult to
believe that it was as short as that. It seemed
more like a decade than four years, which
[5] with the miseries of winter when his longing
to return home took on the sharpness of
physical pain. It was ∈England that Nigeria
first became more than just a name to him.
That was the first great thing that England did
[10] for him. But the Nigeria he returned to was ∈
many ways different from the picture he had
carried ∈ his mind during those four years.
There were many things he could no longer
recognize, and others — like the slums of
[15] Lagos — which he was seeing for the first
time.
As a boy ∈ the village of Umuofia, he had
heard his first stories about Lagos from a
soldier home …….. leave from the war. Those
[20] soldiers were heroes who had seen the great
world. They spoke of Abyssinia, Egypt,
Palestine, Burma and so on. Some of them
had been village ne'er-do-wells, but now they
were heroes. They had bags and bags of
[25] money, and the villagers sat …….. their feet
to listen to their stories. One of them went
regularly to a market ∈ the neighbouring
village and helped himself to whatever he
liked. He went ∈ full uniform, breaking the
[30] earth with his boots, and no one dared touch
him. It was said that if you touched a soldier,
Government would deal with you. Besides,
soldiers were as strong as lions because of
the injections they were given …….. the army.
[35] It was from one of these soldiers that Obi had
his first picture of Lagos.
‘There is no darkness there,' he told his
admiring listeners, `because at night the
electric shines like the sun, and people are
[40] always walking about, that is, those who want
to walk. If you don't want to walk, you only
have to wave your hand and a pleasure car
stops for you.' His audience made sounds of
wonderment. Then by way of digression he
[45] said: 'If you see a white man, take off your
\hat for him. The only thing he cannot do is
mould a human being.'
ACHEBE, Chinua. No Longer at Ease. New York / London: Everyman’s Library, 2010. p. 162.
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