In such early acts as the accumulations Ikolo the Wrestler and Other Ibo Tales

history channel documentary Two novellas for kids followed in 1960; both The Drummer Boy and The Passport of Mallam Ilia which were activities in mixing customary subjects with undisguised romanticism.Between 1961 and 1966 Ekwensi distributed no less than one noteworthy work each year. The most imperative of these were the books, Beautiful Feathers (1963) and Iska (1966), and two accumulations of short stories, Rainmaker (1965) and Lokotown (1966).Beautiful Feathers (1963) mirrors the patriot and skillet Africanist cognizance of the pre-freedom days of the 1950s and how the youthful legend's energetic responsibility to his optimal prompts the deterioration of his family, in this way underscoring the saying insinuated in the title: "however celebrated a man is outside, in the event that he is not regarded inside his own particular home he resemble a flying creature with delightful quills, awesome on the outside yet normal inside."

From 1967 to 1969, amid the Nigerian common war, when the eastern piece of Nigeria endeavored to withdraw, Ekwensi served as an administration data officer the encounters from which he used to compose the 1976 picaresque novel Survive the Peace. which sensibly depicted the exercises of a radio writer in the wake of the common war in Biafra.who in his push to rejoin his family, experiences the viciousness, decimation, displaced people, and alleviation operations that such confusion causes. Through flashbacks, Ekwensi likewise portrays the war itself giving a posthumous on the simply closed , grills the issues of getting by in the supposed peace. It searches for example at the disgraceful destiny of James Odugo, the radio columnist who survives the war just to be eliminated the street by ravaging previous officers.

In such early acts as the accumulations Ikolo the Wrestler and Other Ibo Tales, and An African Night's Entertainment, the novel Burning Grass, and the adolescent works The Leopard's Claw and Juju Rock, Ekwensi recounted stories in a rustic setting.Ekwensi kept on distributed past the 1960s, and among his later works are the novel Divided We Stand (1980) in which he ridiculed the Nigerian common war, the novella Motherless Baby (1980), and The Restless City and Christmas Gold (1975), Behind the Convent Wall (1987), and Gone to Mecca (1991).