Power and responsibility as they affect political governance in
Africa is the theme which is examined here in the works of the
distinguished father of African literature. The author, a lecturer
and literary critic of Commonwealth literature, identifies gross
abuse of power and privilege as central to Achebe's fiction. He looks
at Achebe's own view of the role of the African writer; the
manifestation of abuse of power in his fiction; and his
disillusionment with post-colonial irresponsibility in No Longer at
Ease and A Man of the People. An analysis is also included of
Achebe's short stories and poems of war.
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