Question: People of the City is a novel by Cyprian Ekwensi that preempted the importance of a novel first published in what year?
Sentence (from "People of the City"): In Ekwensi's obituary in "The Guardian", Shola Adenekan called the novel "the first Nigerian work to gain international acclaim and the first Nigerian novel to be published in Britain", preempting the importance of Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart."
Relevant evidence: Yes