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on post-war Nigeria, 243–53
siblings, 8
and storytelling, 8–9
as teacher, 29–30
Things Fall Apart, 35–39
transformative books read by, 10, 25
Trouble with Nigeria, The, 74, 249
West African religions, study of, 33–34
as writer, observations on, 34–35, 39, 53–57
Achebe, Christie Okoli (wife)
children of, 65, 68, 88–89
education of, 16, 28
family background, 31–33
flees after 1966 coup, 69
hometown of, 31
on market bombing, 189
meets Chinua, 31–32
school led by, 193
Achebe, Frank (brother), 8, 148–49, 172, 183
Achebe, Grace (sister), 8
Achebe, Ike (son), 68, 69, 181, 184
Achebe, Isaiah Okafo (father)
as Christian evangelist, 7–8, 10–14
education, importance to, 10–11
personality traits of, 10, 12–13
Achebe, Janet Anaenechi Iloegbunam (mother)
and Christianity, 8
illness and death of, 181, 183
personality traits of, 9–10
Achebe, John (brother), 8, 17–20, 188
