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