In Africa, the interests of various individuals and groups have transformed the possession of power into nightmarish dimensions due to the flaws in the political structures of societies. Although some of these degenerative weaknesses have been explained by historical experiences, the fact remains that the progressive development of any society depends on a conscious elimination of defects in the organizational structure of society by those in power. to provide advice and direction. Moreover, this burden of leadership could give rise to parasitic patriotic tendencies in the use and exercise of power. (Ehling 23-25)According to Steven Gale in his critical commentary "Chinua Achebe's No Longer at Ease" where he states: "It is evident almost from the beginning of No Longer at Ease that Obi is not of a heroic nature and that his tragedy will not be a fall in the middle of battle, but rather an inability to face this battle. He never achieves greatness; he only moves further and further away from it, succumbing to what he called the sin of the old African” (quoted in Asong 167)(SEE “UNDERSTANDING TFA” p9)See the novel and the culture of globalization p140See the encyclopedia ch ach p55 (obi between 2 forces) In No Longer at Ease, Obi Okonkwo is clearly not willing to abdicate the colonial elite; his education actually disposed him to treat his fellow citizens with much the same contempt as the colonialists. (Shea 100)Every list of great African books includes at least one of his works. Alongside the prelude to the 1958 novel Things Fall Apart, Achebe published a sequel to his story two years later. Both stories are tragedies: a good man meets a bad end. Its weakness is middle of paper ......ters in English. The tragedy is that Obi fails on both counts: he has not been able to remain loyal to the clan that formed him, nor to the nation. he was trained to serve. The tragedy is national, but that does not make Obi a tragic hero. It would not be appropriate to adopt a conventional tragic paradigm to measure Obi's worth as a tragic hero since, given the level of his training and social responsibility, the failure of character weighs far more than the pressures economics often cited as the cause of its tragedy. . Although the various literary allusions and definitions of tragedy in the novel may indicate the novelist's intent and the tragic standard by which to measure Obi, it seems more useful to view Obi as the first in the literary line of antiheroes who must face to the new conditions of an urban, industrial and national culture. (Irelé 42)