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L. Innes)  \nAnother Africa (with Robert Lyons) The Education of a British-Protected Child  \nPENGUIN BOOKS  \nAn imprint of Penguin Random House LLC  \n375 Hudson Street  \nNew York, New York 10014  \n[penguin.com](penguin.com)  \nFirst Anchor Books edition published 1967 Published in Penguin Books 2016  \nCopyright © 1966 by Chinua Achebe  \nPenguin supports copyright. Copyright fuels creativity, encourages diverse voices, promotes free speech, and creates a vibrant culture. Thank you for buying an authorized edition of this book and for complying with copyright laws by not reproducing, scanning, or distributing any part ofit in any form without permission. You are supporting writers and allowing Penguin to continue to publish books for every reader.  \nEbook ISBN 9781101666395  \nLIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Achebe, Chinua.  \nA man of the people / Chinua Achebe.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).  \nReprint. Originally published Garden City, N.Y.:  \nAnchor Books, 1967.  \nI. Title.  \nPR9387 .9.A3M3 1989 88-22904 823—dc19  \nISBN 9780385086165  \nThis is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author ’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.  \nCover art and hand-lettering by Edel Rodriguez  \nVersion_ 1  \nContents  \nAlso by Chinua Achebe Title Page Copyright Dedication  \nChapter 1  \nChapter 2  \nChapter 3  \nChapter 4  \nChapter 5  \nChapter 6  \nChapter 7  \nChapter 8  \nChapter 9  \nChapter 10  \nChapter 11  \nChapter 12  \nChapter 13  \nAbout the Author  \nFor J.P. and Chris  \n1  \nNo one can deny that Chief the Honourable M. A. Nanga, M.P., was the most approachable politician in the country. Whether you asked in the city or in his home village, Anata, they would tell you he was a man of the people. I have to admit this from the onset or else the story I’m going to tell will make no sense.  \nThat afternoon he was due to address the staff and students of the Anata Grammar School where I was teaching at the time. But as usual in those highly political times the villagers moved in and virtually took over. The Assembly Hall must have carried well over thrice its capacity. Many villagers sat on the floor, right up to the foot of the dais. I took one look and decided it was just as well we had to stay outside—at least for the moment.  \nFive or six dancing groups were performing at different points in the compound. The popular “Ego Women’s Party” wore a new uniform of expensive accra cloth. In spite ofthe din you could still hear as clear as a bird the high-powered voice of their soloist, whom they admiringly nicknamed “Grammar-phone”. Personally I don’t care too much for our women’s dancing but you just had to listen whenever Grammar-phone sang. She was now praising Micah’s handsomeness, which she likened to the perfect, sculpted beauty of a carved eagle, and his popularity which would be the envy of the proverbial traveller-to-distant-places who must not cultivate enmity on his route. Micah was of course Chief the Honourable M. A. Nanga, M.P.  \nThe arrival of the members of the hunters’ guild in full regalia caused a great stir. Even Grammar-phone stopped—at least for a while. These people never came out except at the funeral of one of their number, or during some very special and outstanding event. I could not remember when I last saw them. They wielded their loaded guns as though they wer","cbCaiqoLdBSoGwTC","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiqoLdBSoGwTC","pdf",1128711,140,"English","# Chapter 1\n## Chapter 2\n## Chapter 3\n## Chapter 4\n## Chapter 5\n## Chapter 6\n## Chapter 7\n## Chapter 8\n## Chapter 9\n## Chapter 10\n## Chapter 11\n## Chapter 12\n## Chapter 13","[{\"question\":\"Who is Chief M. A. 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