In Africa, the interests of various individuals and groups have transformed the possession of power to nightmarish dimensions due to 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 the society by those who have the power to provide guidance and direction. Furthermore, this burden of leadership could arouse 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 heroic in nature and that his tragedy will not be a fall in the midst of battle but rather will result from the inability to face that battle. He never achieves greatness; he merely sinks further and further from it, succumbing to what he has labeled the sin of the old African” (qtd. in Asong 167) (SEE “UNDERSTANDING TFA” p9) See the novel and the culture of globalization p140 See l 'encyclopedia ch ach p55 ( obi between 2 forces) In No Longer at Ease, Obi Okonkwo is clearly reluctant to abdicate to the colonial elite; his education has in fact disposed him to treat his fellow citizens with almost the same contempt as the colonialists. (Shea 100)Every list of great African books includes at least one of his works. Along with the prelude novel, 1958's Things Fall Apart, Achebe published a sequel to his story two years later. Both stories are tragedies: a good man comes to a bad end. His weakness is... in the middle of the paper... in English. The tragedy is that Obi fails on both counts: he was unable to remain loyal to the clan that trained him, or to the nation. he was trained to serve. The tragedy is national, but that does not make Obi a tragic hero. It would be inappropriate to adopt a conventional tragic paradigm to measure Obi's value as a tragic hero since, given the level of his education and social responsibility, the character's failure weighs much more than the economic pressures often cited as the cause of his tragedy. . Although the various literary allusions and definitions of tragedy in the novel may indicate the novelist's intention and the tragic standard by which to measure Obi, it seems more useful to consider Obi as the first in the literary lineage of antiheroes who must face the new conditions of an urban culture , industrial and national. (Irele 42)