The Violence of the Colonizer and the Colonized: Dehumanization and Rehumanization in Achebe’s novels, and Fanon’s Perspective of Anticolonial Violence

Abstract

Chinua Achebe‟s novels in general are very practical and offer the reader a comprehensive understanding of the field of post-colonialism and exactly in the phase of Dehumanization and Rehumanization. This study puts forward a “Third World” revolutionary reading of Chinua Achebe‟s novels Things Fall Apart (1958), Arrow of God (1964), and Anthills of the Savannah (1987). In Addition to the novels, “Third World” revolutionary ideas, such as the re-humanizing violence of the colonized, cultural resistance by means of constructing a unifying national culture and having control over the means of production, will be highlighted. Achebe, unlike other Nigerian authors intended to show people how colonialism works and the way his culture and society fell apart. He wanted to transmit an honest picture. Achebe‟s refusal of colonial culture deciphers into his ferocious elimination of the post- independence westernization of African societies as the novelist clearly presents in his novels. These theoretical and revolutionary ideas will be applied to selected works by this special novelist.