Introduction: Chinua Achebe, Writing Culture, and the Politics of Representations

Chima J. Korieh and Ijeoma C. Nwajiaku

Part I. Chinua Achebe and Igbo-African Realities

Chapter 1: Causality in Selected Cultural Novels by Chinua Achebe: Perspectives in Igbo Metaphysics

B. E. Nwigwe

Chapter 2: (Re)Discovering the Igbo Oral Tradition in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Anthills of the Savannah

Alassane Abdoulaye Dia

Chapter 3: Symbols and Images in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

Nureni Oyewole Fadare

Chapter 4: Igbo Communal Ethos: A Reading of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart &Arrow of God

Ijeoma Nwajiaku

Chapter 5: Things Fall Apart and Igbo Leadership: Learning and Unlearning the Lessons of Okonkwo's Life

N. Tony Nwaezeigwe

Chapter 6: Achebe and the Pedagogy of Indigenous Knowledge Systems: Gleanings from Arrow of God

Ijeoma C. Nwajiaku

Part II: Chinua Achebe and Politics of Representation

Chapter 7: Chinua Achebe's "'Chi' in Igbo Cosmology": Revisiting a Classic

Chijioke Azuawusiefe

Chapter 8: Discourse, Imagination, and Models of Resistance: Re-reading Arrow of God

Ifi Amaduime

Chapter 9: The Collision of Asymmetric Civilizations-A Reading of Things Fall Apart

Ihechukwu C. Madubuike

Chapter 10: (Re)Memorising Igbo Traditions in Achebe's Arrow of God: A Psychoanalytical Study

Linda Jummai Mustafa

Part III: Achebe, History, and the National Question

Chapter 11: Telling Africa's Story: Chinua Achebe and the Power of Narratives

Chijioke Azuawusiefe

Chapter 12: Narrativizing History: Chinua Achebe and the Politics of Interpretation

Anwesha Das

Chapter 13: Achebeism and the Nigerian Leadership Problem

Ada Uzoamaka Azodo

Chapter 14: Chinua Achebe as a Voice of Reason on the Nigerian Crisis: A Historical Look at the Larger Picture

Odigwe A. Nwaokocha

Chapter 15: Chinua Achebe and the National Question

Bernard Steiner Ifekwe