... he orders a Heineken, further pointing to the presence of Western Europe in Nigeria. Moreover, there is also an evident choice of language in this section on Achebe's part, which points directly to this archetypal figure of the colonial world. When ordering their beers, one of the men says: "One beer for ... not strange to his tongue. Obi has gone away for just under four years, and it is apparent that there are things he has forgotten, rules he has missed out on learning, and discrepancies in his and his countrymen's beliefs and customs. There is also the issue of how others treat ... ...

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