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Supersummary, a modern alternative to sparknotes and cliffsnotes, offers highquality study guides for challenging works of literature. The final two episodes of the series were produced but never broadcast. A man of the people was written by nigerian author chinua achebe in 1966. Heavy industry would mainly employ men, women were more commonly employed in textile factories.
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