The podcast introduces listeners to Chinua Achebe’s view of African culture as dynamic and living, not a museum of “old customs;

Explains why Achebe believes all African writing of his time inevitably carries a social or political protest;

Explores how his novels, especially ‘Arrow of God’ and ‘A man of the People’, dramatise power, corruption, and responsibility;

Connects Achebe’s reflections on writers, politicians, and the public to today’s debates about leadership and cultural representation.