Achebe, Uche (nephew), 191–92
Achebe, Zinobia (sister), 8–9
Achukwe, Willy, 156
Achuzia, Colonel “Air Raid,” 172–73, 217–18
Action Group, 45–46, 51
Adekunle, Benjamin, 133, 137–38
Afigbo, Adiele, 27
Africa. See West Africa
colonial rule. See British colonial rule
leadership, Mandela as model, 258
African Americans, Nigeria-Biafra war, response to, 103–4
African Continental Bank, 42–43
African culture
denigration by colonizers, 54
elements of, 54
African independence
Azikiwe as father of, 41–43, 45
Ghana, 40–41
Mandela as model leader, 258
Nigeria, 48–51
African literature, 53–61
Achebe on moral obligation, 53, 55, 58–59
creating, elements of, 54–55
Négritude, 163–64
and new writers, 59–61
objectives of, 53
oral tradition. See Igbo traditions; Storytelling
past, great works of, 53
politics of representation in, 55
as protest literature, 58–59