Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Arrow of God is a 1964 novel by Chinua Achebe, his second novel after Things Fall Apart. These two books, along with the final book, No Longer at Ease, are sometimes called The African Trilogy, as they share similar settings and themes. The novel centers on Ezeulu, the chief priest of several Igbo villages in Colonial Nigeria, who confronts colonial powers and Christian missionaries in the 1920s.The phrase "Arrow of God" is drawn from an Igbo proverb in which a person, or sometimes an event, is said to represent the will of God.Arrow of God won the first ever Jock Campbell/New Statesman Prize for African writing.. }
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- Arrow_of_God abstract "Arrow of God is a 1964 novel by Chinua Achebe, his second novel after Things Fall Apart. These two books, along with the final book, No Longer at Ease, are sometimes called The African Trilogy, as they share similar settings and themes. The novel centers on Ezeulu, the chief priest of several Igbo villages in Colonial Nigeria, who confronts colonial powers and Christian missionaries in the 1920s.The phrase "Arrow of God" is drawn from an Igbo proverb in which a person, or sometimes an event, is said to represent the will of God.Arrow of God won the first ever Jock Campbell/New Statesman Prize for African writing.".