Chinua Achebe and the Igbo-African World

Chima J. Korieh is professor of African History at Marquette University.Ijeoma C. Nwajiaku teaches English and African literature in the Languages Department of Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Nigeria.

• Introduction: Chinua Achebe, Writing Culture, and the Politics of Representations Chima J. Korieh and Ijeoma C. NwajiakuPart I. Chinua Achebe and Igbo-African RealitiesChapter 1: Causality in Selected Cultural Novels by Chinua Achebe: Perspectives in Igbo MetaphysicsB. E. NwigweChapter 2: (Re)Discovering the Igbo Oral Tradition in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Anthills of the SavannahAlassane Abdoulaye DiaChapter 3: Symbols and Images in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall ApartNureni Oyewole FadareChapter 4: Igbo Communal Ethos: A Reading of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart & Arrow of GodIjeoma NwajiakuChapter 5: Things Fall Apart and Igbo Leadership: Learning and Unlearning the Lessons of Okonkwo’s Life N. Tony NwaezeigweChapter 6: Achebe and the Pedagogy of Indigenous Knowledge Systems: Gleanings from Arrow of GodIjeoma C. NwajiakuPart II: Chinua Achebe and Politics of RepresentationChapter 7: Chinua Achebe’s “‘Chi’ in Igbo Cosmology”: Revisiting a Classic

Deep, incisive, analytical, and skillfully selected. This is the book on Achebe’s oeuvre that we have all been waiting for.