discuss the role played by the Umuofia Progressive Union in installing the value of culture and tradition in the no longer at ease novel

A mutual benefits organization for Umuofian emigrés, the UPU has chapters everywhere, including Lagos. Idealizing education as the means of becoming a modern people, Umuofians tax themselves mercilessly to provide a scholarship for one of their own to go to Oxford University. They select Obi Okonkwo as the first recipient. Upon return, he must repay the £800 loan within four years, in order that it may benefit other young scholars. The UPU also expects Obi to be on the lookout for good jobs for its members. Obi bristles when the President of the UPU suggests getting involved with an osu is bad and for a while refuses to deal with the UPU. They are eventually reconciled, but Obi proudly rejects the UPU offer to defer repayment of his loan. This proves fatal. When Obi is arrested for accepting bribes, the UPU pays his legal expenses, because anger against a brother goes only flesh-deep, not into the bone marrow.