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Koffi Jules KOUAKOU.

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This article aims at mitigating the anti-feminist character of Chinua Achebe’s novels. Having long suffered fierce criticism for his lack of interest in the plight of discriminated women as a top world novelist, Chinua Achebe seems to operate a revolution in his perception of the woman in Anthills of the Savannah (1987). This novel, which mirrors socio-political chaos in post-independent Nigeria, sets side by side the depth of African women’s predicaments with men’s unmindful wielding of machismo. In this distant combat of gender, women succeed a takeover, especially through sophistication and determination. The patriarchal order of the fictional state of Kangan gradually makes way for a disguised woman reign by the end of the narrative. Anthills of the Savannah, therefore, atones for the writer’s literary ‘misogyny’. Envisaged from a feminist perspective, this article underscores Achebe’s intellectual legacy for the realization of gender equity, the key to sustainable development in Africa.

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