Nigeria since its independence from British colonial rule has been beset by ineradicable corruption, frequent political turmoils and coups. The outbreak of the civil war that lasted from 1967 through 1970 announced the failure of its imagined national community. The Interpreters by Wole Soyinka is informed with considerable national metaphors, which expounds mentally stressful crisis undergone by Nigerian intellectuals in general, and the split images of the nation-state as well. The work has thus become a writing of prophesy. This paper is to explore from the perspective of “imagined community” the relationship between intellectuals and the national building of Nigeria, and to examine relevant reasons for the community suffering separation and its projection in Soyinka’s creative writing; furthermore, through approaching the turn in criticizing Soyinka, it is to deal with the writer’s proactive efforts to “write back” in post-colonial context, so as to reveal the multiple facets of his writings and to demonstrate his consistency in constructing the subjectivity of African literature and culture.