Literature is not necessarily history but it can be history because it has the ability to pre-empt an unacceptable future as it provides a model in fiction to construct that future. To this end, literature relates to history. The artist could start from a dissatisfied present, peep into the past to see what it was like and make a selection from both to forecast a future, shaping its birth according to existing literary trends. This paper focuses on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s use of history in Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun to construct and arouse national consciousness by re-creating the history of the Nigerian Civil War through literature. Using content analysis, the paper examine the two novels as primary sources of data and other critical materials about the author. This paper adopts Marxism as interpretative theory to evaluate the novels. The research proves that creative novelists do not distort history, rather, they re-invent and re-construct the history of their societies, organizing them according to existing literary trends. The research aids a better understanding, interpretation and analysis of Adichie’s novels.