The title character, who is charged with overseeing such rituals as the Feast of the Pumpkin Leaves and the New Yam Festival, wants to get on the good side of the white men, sending his son to the missionary John Goodcountry, who tells Oduche to kill the sacred python of Umuaro, the Igbo village where the novel is set.  
The flashback that opens the novel follows a clash that begins with the murder of a village messenger and ends when Captain Winterbottom comes and destroys all the guns.  The title character, who is charged with overseeing such rituals as the Feast of the Pumpkin Leaves and the New Yam Festival, wants to get on the good side of the white men, sending his son to the missionary John Goodcountry, who tells Oduche to kill the sacred python of Umuaro, the Igbo village where the novel is set.  FTP, name this novel about Ezulu, the titular priest of Ulu, a work by Chinua Achebe.
The flashback that opens the novel follows a clash that begins with the murder of a village messenger and ends when Captain Winterbottom comes and destroys all the guns.  
Arrow of God