Reprint. Originally published: London : William Heinemann, c1959

"50th anniversary edition" -- Cover

Includes glossary of Ibo words and phrases

First published in 1959, this novel tells the story of Okonkwo, the leader of an Igbo (Ibo) community who is banished for accidentally killing a clansman. The novel covers the seven years of his exile to his return, providing an inside view of the intrusion of white missionaries and colonial government into tribal Igbo society in the 1890s