This paper addresses the question of nation and nationhood in Alobwed'Epie's two novels. The Death Certificate and The Day God Blinked. The major objective is to assay the complexities and numerous variables involved in the definition of the postcolonial nation .We should however bear in mind that the postcolonial nation is more or less the post independent construct forged from the unholy marriage of sorts to which the pre-colonial nations were subjected by the colonial nations. Against the backdrop of the tenets of postcolonial theory and new historicism, this paper argues that the postcolonial nation is now plagued by the reconstruction of the tribal, ethnic and political barriers that render post independent nations a bewildered and confounded set up of political rhetoric rather than the fruits of the promise that independence projected. This essay further argues that the failure of the post independent leaders leave the post independent societies plaintive