No Longer at Ease takes place during British colonial rule in Nigeria and tells the story of Obi Okonkwo, grandson of the protagonist of Achebe’s first novel, Things Fall Apart. After four years of university studies in England, Obi returns to Nigeria and finds he is “no longer at ease” in his homeland. The title of the novel comes from the closing lines of T. S. Eliot’s poem, The Journey of the Magi: