In one work by this author, the title character goes to Onitsha with a wooden box made by the carpenter James Okeke, while he wrote a poem which contains the lines, "yesterday they picked the eyes of a swollen corpse in a water-logged trench and ate the things in its bowel".  
In one work by this author, the title character goes to Onitsha with a wooden box made by the carpenter James Okeke, while he wrote a poem which contains the lines, "yesterday they picked the eyes of a swollen corpse in a water-logged trench and ate the things in its bowel".  This author of Chike and the River and Vultures wrote one novel in which Ezeulu is the chief priest of Ulu who feuds with the people of Okperi and T.K. Winterbottom before his village converts to Christianity, and one novel about Sam, a military officer trained at Sandhurst, who becomes the leader of the nation of Kangan, before he and Comissioner for Information Chris Oriko are killed.  For 10 points—name this author of Arrow of God and Anthills of the Savannah, who also wrote about the murder of Ikemefuna by the father of Nwoye, Okonkwo, in his novel Things Fall Apart.
In one work by this author, the title character goes to Onitsha with a wooden box made by the carpenter James Okeke, while he wrote a poem which contains the lines, "yesterday they picked the eyes of a swollen corpse in a water-logged trench and ate the things in its bowel".  
Chinua {Achebe}