1991 Heinemann Kenya trade paperback, reprint. chinua achebe (No Longer at Ease). A tale of two stories. The first, a powerful fable of the immemorial conflict between the individual and society, traces Okonkwo's fall from grace with the tribal world. The second, as modern as the first is ancient, concerns the clash of cultures and the destruction of Okonkwo's world with the arrival of aggressive European missionaries.