No Longer at Ease

No Longer at Ease

Intermediate level

The young man on trial was Obi Okonkwo, a Senior Civil Servant. Obi Okonkwo was accused of taking a bribe. ‘I cannot understand why you took this bribe,’ said the Judge. ‘You are an educated young man. A young man of great promise.’ When Obi heard these words, tears suddenly came into his eyes. Obi had lost everything. He had lost his mother. She was dead. And he had lost the woman he loved – she had left him forever. Obi Okonkwo had nothing more to lose.