ABSTRACT
The call of care and concern is a challenge and the response and the resoluteness of this response are key in determining the ethical being of Achebe’s characters. The call and the response are increasingly the occasion of crisis the farther away one moved from the circumscribed world of the tribe. And the characters have Dasein’s authenticity, ‘most themselves’, in Heidegger’s phrasing, who are entirely concerned with ‘the ways of taking care of the “world”’ and fostering of concern for others. Being most oneself, however, is often the occasion for great and intense suffering.
