num_pages: 149
description: By the renowned author of "Things Fall Apart," this novel foreshadows the Nigerian coups of 1966 and shows the color and vivacity as well as the violence and corruption of a society making its own way between the two worlds.This novel was included in Anthony Burgess's personal selection of the 99 best novels in English since 1939.
language: English
title: A Man of the People
titlecomplete: A Man of the People
genres: Fiction, African Literature, Politics, Literature, Classics, Novels, Nigeria, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Africa
ratings_count: 4845
publisher: Heinemann