A Study of National consciousness in Chinua Achebe's novel Anthills of the Savannah

Abstract

The application of postcolonial theories relating national consciousness through story telling about own society brings interaction between people. The interaction helps the discourse of the people. The story telling guards nation and people. The story telling is also telling the history of people. China Achebe's nobel Anthills of the Savannah(1997) is about the story telling. Most of the characters: Sam, Chris, Ikem and Beatric narrate the situation and events of Kangan imaginary nation of Nigeria. The main character danger of government isout-of-touch with citizen. Sam, Chris and Ikem are educated in London and Washington. They try to rule like colonizers. But they failed to rule and their death at the end. The end of the tyrannical government is beginning of the new Nigeria.