Arrow of God
Chinua Achebe
A priest, a god, and the machinery of indirect rule.
Set in the 1920s, Achebe's story of Ezeulu, chief priest of Ulu, examines how colonial administration and internal rivalry break an Igbo community's spiritual authority. More intricate than Things Fall Apart in its politics, it dramatizes indirect rule from within, showing how a proud man's miscalculation and the British presence together dismantle a whole order of belief.
Its legacy. Often judged the most structurally ambitious book of Achebe's African Trilogy.
- Author
- Chinua Achebe
- First published
- 1964
- Genre
- Novel
- Theme
- The West African Novel
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