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Anthills of the Savannah
Anthills of the Savannah | Chinua Achebe
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'[The writer] in whose company the prison walls fell down' - Nelson Mandela. 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 which those who are meant to be protecting a country's citizens are in reality supervising the looting.
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Bite-sized Book Chats: The 12th Episode

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Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe

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"Writers don't give prescriptions," shouted Ikem. "They give headaches!"
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Might as well start with the around 200 page book I've been reading for months...

"We don't know the genius who invented the shower or the paper stapler . . . Let us now praise famous men and our fathers that begat us. Except that our fathers were not very famous in the invention line. But what does it matter?"

Achebe's sexism or character development?

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There was for me no greater luxury in those days than to sleep through night-rain on a Friday knowing there was neither school nor church in the morning to worry about.