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ANTHILLS OF THE SAVANNAH is a novel about politics in the fictional West African nation of Kanga--a place very much like late 20th-century Nigeria. The military installs an officer as dictator of the country, who gradually becomes more paranoid and despotic until, eventually, he suspects even his oldest friends of disloyalty. Achebe's satiric vision vividly illuminates the tangled and often corrupt world of Third World politics.
Industry Reviews
"Gloriously gifted with the magic of an ebullient, generous, great talent."
New York Times Book Review - Nadine Gordimer
"Achebe has written a story that sidesteps both ideologies of the African experience and political agendas, in order to lead us to a deeply human, universal wisdom."
Pasternak
"Achebe moves effortlessly...creating a flurry of perspectives from which his story's dramatic and disturbing events are scrutinized. 'Anthills of the Savannah'...will prove hard to forget. It's a vision of social change that strikes us with force of prophecy."
Pasternak
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