ABSTRACT
The epic is quite familiar in literary study and criticism. Its Western as well as African variants well-known among scholars and students of literature all over the world. African versions of the epic such as Mwindo, Chaka and Sundiata give us some ideas about the African epic. But is there any such thing as the pan-African epic, and do Armah’s Two Thousand Seasons, Osiris Rising and KMT: in the house of life belong to this category? The choric characterization, the strong female characters in prominent roles, the monolithic setting, the concept of heroism, the nature of warfare and the message of a seamless Sub-Saharan African nation being propagated by these novels suggest the genesis of a new form of the African epic–the pan-African epic.