Chinua Achebe - the second volume of his "African Trilogy," "Home and Exile," follows "Things Fall Apart" and constitutes the second book of the "African Trilogy." Obi Okwonkwo, the grandson of the hero from "Things Fall Apart," leaves his village with the support of everyone to stand as a politician for them, having been educated in Britain. However, he disappoints everyone. Achebe's novel deals with a life that cannot succeed. "There was an author named Chinua Achebe, in whose society the prison walls came crashing down." Nelson Mandela on the books he read in prison.