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Anthills of the Savannah is a 1987 novel by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe. It was his fifth novel, first published in the United Kingdom 21 years after Achebe's previous one (A Man of the People in 1966), and was credited with having "revived his reputation in Britain".
- Chinua Achebe
- 1987
1. Jan. 1987 · Chris Orito, Minister of Information, and Ikem Osodi, poet and editor, are forced to take action when their old friend, His Excellency, the current dictator of Kangan, starts becoming reactionary. People are arrested, murders happen, and peaceful protests are violently dealt with by the police.
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When the president is charged with censoring the opportunistic editor of the state-run newspaper–another childhood friend–Chris’s loyalty and ideology are put to the test. The fate of Kangan hangs in the balance as tensions rise and a devious plot is set in motion to silence a firebrand critic.
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In his long-awaited fifth novel, Chinua Achebe delivers a searing satire on political corruption, set in the fictional West African nation of Kangan. Chris, Ikem and Beatrice are three like-minded friends working under the military regime of His Excellency, the Sandhurst-educated President of Kangan.
Anthills of the Savannah transports the reader to the West African country of Kangan, a fictional Nigeria, in the wake of a revolutionary coup that overthrew a dictator. Achebe discusses the strict balance of power that must be maintained in order to sustain a democracy, and the fine the line that is tread between leader and dictator.
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4. Feb. 1997 · Anthills of the Savannah. Chinua Achebe. Penguin, Feb 4, 1997 - Fiction - 224 pages. A searing satire of political corruption and social injustice from the celebrated author...
After a long silence Achebe published in 1987 what many see as his greatest work - an acrid, frightening look at oil-boom Nigeria, a world of robberies, road blocks and intimidation in...
