Abstract: Albert Chinualumogu Achebe was best known for his portrayal of traditional African life as it clashes with white men (colonial masters). He was also known for his neglect of female characters’ role in most of his novels. In this paper, attempt has been made to show his ‘turn back’ from the earlier position of assigning women an inferior status in his novels. This is done in the light of Anthills of the Savannah where the dominant female character, Beatrice, is portrayed as a symbol of the new women – educated, full of potentials and credentials. Hence, Achebe with a new voice and thought. The paper concludes with explanation on the two sets of female characters in Achebe’s novels. The earlier novels reflected women as inferior and weak while in the novel analysed, the female characters represented by Beatrice, are portrayed with full potentials like their male counterparts. This is what makes the novelist a born-again.