Reading the ‘Military Virus’ in Postcolonial African Novels: Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah and Okey Ndibe’s Arrows of Rain in Context
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The novel in Africa plays a pivotal role in social re-engineering. By making its immediate society its subject matter, it often achieves in one swift stroke a kaleidoscopic reflection of socio-political ills that hamper growth and development. In exploring these problems, the African novel not only illuminates them, but challenges society to surmount them. Military leadership is among the worst challenges in African countries; therefore, a deeper understanding of military characters and their conduct would aid society respond appropriately to it in future. This paper probes military characters in Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah and Okey Ndibe’s Arrows of Rain in order to highlight the personality traits associated with soldiers in politics.
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PE English, PN Literature (General), PR English literature