There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra

on post-war Nigeria, 243–53

siblings, 8

and storytelling, 8–9

as teacher, 29–30

Things Fall Apart, 35–39

transformative books read by, 10, 25

Trouble with Nigeria, The, 74, 249

West African religions, study of, 33–34

as writer, observations on, 34–35, 39, 53–57

Achebe, Christie Okoli (wife)

children of, 65, 68, 88–89

education of, 16, 28

family background, 31–33

flees after 1966 coup, 69

hometown of, 31

on market bombing, 189

meets Chinua, 31–32

school led by, 193

Achebe, Frank (brother), 8, 148–49, 172, 183

Achebe, Grace (sister), 8

Achebe, Ike (son), 68, 69, 181, 184

Achebe, Isaiah Okafo (father)

as Christian evangelist, 7–8, 10–14

education, importance to, 10–11

personality traits of, 10, 12–13

Achebe, Janet Anaenechi Iloegbunam (mother)

and Christianity, 8

illness and death of, 181, 183

personality traits of, 9–10

Achebe, John (brother), 8, 17–20, 188