Arrow of God
One of the strongest novels written by Chinua Achebe and situated in Nigeria is the Arrow of God The thematic conflict of the novel is between indigenous culture and the novitiate impact of the British colonization of Nigeria. The action stems from the principal character, Ezeulu an Igbo priest of a man of a strong ego and strong political and spiritual complications. Only a wise man can narrate a story that can abase power, culture and identity in the same way, as Achebe did in this deep thinking story.
About the Author
Things Fall Apart was published in 1958 and did something African literature in English had not managed before: it wrote an Igbo community from inside, with its own law, humour and cruelty intact, and let the missionaries arrive as the intrusion rather than the civilising…
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