In the wake of the nationalist movement, African countries were mainly preoccupied with the project of decolonisation. This involved the politics of resistance against the colonial hegemony and cultural imperialism of metropolitan countries like Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, etc. In the vanguard of this resistance were artists and writers who also enlisted their voices and invested their literary and critical energies in the decolonisation process. A constitutive part of the rhythms of political resistance against the imperial programme was cultural nationalism which witnessed the assertion and affirmation of African cultural traditions, mores and values. Many African writers committed themselves to the anti-colonial rite of writing back from the margins to the imperial centre. Chinua Achebe ranks prominently in this cultural revisionist process.
