There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra

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