What is the setting of Vengeful Creditor by Chinua Achebe?

The story's setting is an unnamed African country in the postcolonial period, though the description of the government's "free primadu" is reminiscent of Nigeria's education policy in the mid 1950s. The British colonial government has been replaced by native officials and bureaucrats who have adopted their predecessors' love of privilege and contempt for the poor. Government policies and programs, therefore, are based on expediency and self-interest rather than on the welfare of the citizens. The story also makes use of the contrast between city and country.