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.

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

• 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

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.

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

• 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

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.

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

• 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