• Dr.R.Wilson,
• D.S.Prasobh Madhavan

All African writers ,though in their unique ways ,have been concerned in their writings with African tradition ,ethnographic practices, consciousness and social structures of their own common, but diversified culture. Chinua Achebe is one of the most-read African writers in English. He has contributed a significant part to the growth and development of the African novels in English. Achebe is the product of two different cultures and two conflicting civilizations. As a result, his fictional characters are rooted from his ethnographic experience. No Longer at Ease, Achebe’s second novel, pictures the complicated relationship between European individualism and African tradition. Obi Okonkwo, the protagonist encounters a kind of psychological crisis due to acculturation. He underwent ‘double colonization’, one from European influence and the other from the neocolonial elite. The paper demonstrates the way how Obi, as a educated person, in a hybrid society made a transformational journey in his life. The paper also throws light on Obi’s alienation, acculturation and ascension in a distinctive way.

African tradition, diversified culture, ethnographic practices, alienation, and acculturation.

"Alienation, Acculturation and Ascension in Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no.144-149, December-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812421.pdf

"Alienation, Acculturation and Ascension in Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no. pp144-149, December-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812421.pdf