Arrow of God
by Chinua Achebe
A priest, an officer, and the god between them.
you want to understand colonialism as a collision of two complete worldviews rather than a simple story of good and evil
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Ezeulu is the chief priest of Ulu, the god of six Igbo villages. Captain Winterbottom is the British district officer who needs Ezeulu's cooperation to maintain colonial order. Both men are intelligent, principled, and completely unable to see the world through the other's eyes. Achebe considered this his finest novel. It is — the most nuanced dispatch from inside the moment when two civilizations tried to occupy the same space and both broke.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Nigeria • West Africa
- Voice
- Written by a Nigerian author
- Themes
- True Cost of Empire
