Chinua Achebe took inspiration in writing about the sack of Abame in 'Things Fall Apart' from the actual historical sack of the community of Ahiara in Eastern Nigeria by colonial forces on the 7th of December 1905. Amid anti-British sentiments around the area, Dr Rogers Stewart, a doctor drafted in to help combat malaria in the area, was murdered and decapitated after wandering into Ahiara, prompting a brutal reprisal attack from the British colonial forces which wiped out multiple villages in the area.