Excremental Postcolonialism in Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah

Abstract

The novel Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe,deals with the evils of the post-colonial social and political in contengencies in the context of Nigerian society. The Nigerian society and their native culture and tradition were exploited, spoiled and fragmented by the colonizers during the colonial period.Due to the invasion of colonialism the purity of Nigerian culture and tradition is lost even in the postcolonial period. The degradation in the culture, society, politics, history and economical factors in the Post-colonial Nigeria causing the country face the existential crisis is basically due to the evils of the colonial mission. Achebe as a post- colonial writer explores the consequences of the European colonialism presenting how not only the Nigerian culture and politics but also by showing how the Nigerian people are also exploited and because of which how they themselves involve in the war between and among themselves. This is done by Achebe through his Anthills of the Savannah.