ABSTRACT
With the release of Anthills of the Savannah, it may be seen that Chinua Achebe’s novels trace out a definite pattern of movement, from a tribe-based society in Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God through a terrain of blurred cultural landmarks in No Longer at Ease and A Man of the People to a space where the absence of a culture to serve as a foundation of stability is compounded by leadership by a visionless military dictatorship whose only goal is self-perpetuation, totally failing to see the nation ‘as something to be taken care of or to be brought to its being through concern’.
