POST INDEPENDENCE POWER PLAY IN CHINUA ACHEBES ANT HILLS OF THE SAVANA AND A MAN OF THE PEOPLE.

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  POST-INDEPENDENCE POWER PLAY IN CHINUA ACHEBES ANT HILLS OF THE SAVANA AND A MAN OF THE PEOPLE

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

  • BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY

A Man of the People (1966) is a novel by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe. Written as a satirical piece, A Man of the People follows a story told by Odili, a young and educated narrator, on his conflict with Chief Nanga, his former teacher who enters a career in politics in an unnamed fictional 20th-century African country. Odili represents the changing younger generation; Nanga represents the traditional West African customs, inspired by that of Achebe’s native Nigeria. The book ends with a military coup, similar to the real-life coups of Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu, and Yakubu Gowon.[1]  A Man of the People is a first-person account of Odili, a schoolteacher in a fictional country closely resembling post-colonial Nigeria. Odili receives an invitation from his former teacher, Chief Nanga, who is now the powerful but corrupt Minister of Culture. As Minister, Nanga’s job is to protect the traditions of his country especially when he is known as “A Man of the People”. Instead, his position is used to increase his personal wealth and power which proves particularly alluring to Odili’s girlfriend; she cheats on him with the minister. Seeking revenge, Odili begins to pursue the minister’s fiancee. Odili agrees to lead an opposition party in the face of both bribes and violent threats. Then there is a military coup.[2] In addition, Nwachukwu-Agbada’s statement regarding Anthills of the Savannah appositely re-echoes this reality. For him, ‘‘the novel is a study of power in an African state, and shows how original ideals are swept aside by the concept of power personalization’’. Consequently, in one of the well-known first statements ever written, Karl Mark and Friedrich Engels began their classic, The Communist Manifesto  (1884) thus: ‘‘The history of all hitherto existing society, is the history of class struggles’’ (1992: 3). The overriding motif of this seminal masterwork was to unearth the subdued history of class struggle and the insidiousness of capitalist mechanism. It is also in this same light that Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) and Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex (1949) as well as other works that adumbrate the negation of patriarchal ethos, the overarching structures of man’s world and the gender-blind, oppressive mechanisms of power relations are written. Taking a cue from the aforesaid, it could be gleaned a priori that the key issues in postcolonial Nigeria are power struggle and unabated frontier materialism. In tandem with this assertion, Ojinmah has lucidly noted that In Achebe’s view, the main problem in contemporary Nigerian society as well as in many independent African societies, is the lack of restraint in wielding power, added to an unbridled scramble for materialism, which in most cases destroy democratic principles.

 

Chapter 1
1.1 background of study
1.2 problem of the study
1.3 objectives of the study
1.4 significance of the study
1.5 scope of the study
Chapter 2
Review of related literature
2.1 brief biography of chinua achebe
2.2 A Man of the People: Some related scholarly inputs
2.3 Anthills of the Savannah: Inputs from schools diverse.
2.4 the new angle

Chapter 3
Post-independence power play in a man of the people
3.1 Summary of the text
3.2 analysis
3.2a Analysis of the text
3.2b Analysis of the Protagonist
3.2c analysis of chief nanga
Chapter 4
Post-independence power play in anthills of the Savannah
4.2 analysis
4.2a Analysis of the text
4.2b Analysis of Sam, politicians, and military men.
4.2c analysis of Chris Ikem and nonpoliticians.

Chapter 5
Comparison and conclusion
5.1 Contours of convergence
5.2 Contours of divergence
5.3 conclusion

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