The way that Cyprian Ekwensi began his written work profession

history channel documentary 2015 The way that Cyprian Ekwensi began his written work profession as a pamphleteer is reflected in the long winded nature of People of the City (1954) a gathering of stories hung together however perusing like a novel, in which he gives an energetic picture of the quick paced life in a West African city, Lagos. Individuals of the City which describes the coming to political attention to a youthful correspondent and band pioneer in a developing African nation is loaded with his running discourse on the issues of gift and defilement and oppression tormenting such states. In it and a few others, Ekwensi investigates the draw, excites and difficulties of urban life, and the compelling tolerance and generic connections pervading the lives of vagrants to the city, where close-ties ordinarily cultivated by the more distant family arrangement of their conventional social orders constitute a genuine beware of the freak ways of life that discover full expression in the city.

As indicated by, Bernth Lindfors, none of Ekwensi's various works is totally free from unprofessional smears and bungles. Lindfors in this manner infers that he couldn't call any "the handicraft of a watchful, talented specialist." On his depiction of the ethical recklessness in city life, Bernth Lindfors, contended that "since his corrupt champions more often than not arrive at awful closures, Ekwensi can be seen as a genuine moralist whose books offer guideline in prudence by showing the lamentable outcomes of bad habit. Be that as it may, it generally appears as though he is more keen on the bad habit than in the goodness and that he intends to titillate and also educate." While this perspective might be challenged, it is certain that he generally endeavored hard to contact his group of onlookers in the most quick and private style. In fact, it was to keep up this that he clung to those subjects that managed him the mass readership he so much craved.In a 1972 meeting by Lewis Nkosi, Ekwensi characterized his part as essayist in this way: "I think I am an author who sees himself as an essayist for the masses. I don't consider myself a scholarly beautician: if my style comes, that is simply coincidental, yet I am more inspired by getting at the heart of reality which the man in the road can perceive than in simply turning words."