ridge to a Wedding (1978), after which he published little.

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Criticism and style[edit]

Munonye, unlike some of his contemporaries, professed a love for optimism in
the face of colonial onslaught on traditional values. To him, the dialectical
environment of African and western tradition can be seen in both a positive light
and outcome for the common Igbo or Nigerian man or woman. An overriding
theme in his novels is the focus on the common man. Munonye sometimes view
the common man as being born into a position whereby he is already at a
disadvantage, both historically and presently, He sees little difference to the fate
of the common man who could be manipulated at the whims of elites and chiefs
in both pre- and post-colonial Nigeria and during colonialism.