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  Anthills of the Savannah Chinua Achebe Novel of West Africa
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Make/Author/Artist: Chinua Achebe
Details: Hard Cover

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Product Code: ACHEDE

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Anthills of the Avannah Chinua Achebe This splendid short novel demonstrates Achebe's continuing ability to depict the challenges posed to African societies by modernism and Western influence.  It details the plight of three educated, upper-class Africans attempting to survive in an atmosphere of political oppression and cultural confusion.

Set in the fictional African country of Kangan, it is clearly patterned after Achebe's native Nigeria, though one can also see elements of Liberia and Ghana. Achebe seems not so much to be blaming the West for Africa's problems as pointing out the ways in which, years after independence -- and even longer since things first fell apart -- African societies continue to struggle with the legacy of colonialism.

The villains are not Europeans but the opportunistic soldiers, politicians, and businesspersons who came to power after the departure of the colonists. Achebe's perceptiveness and skillful sketches of characters make this an important work, a period piece as representative of contemporary, post-independence Africa as Things Fall Apart was of colonial Africa.

CONDITION:Hard Cover with Dust Jacket, DJ has a mylar protective cover, 223 pages, book is tight and clean, cover shows light wear. Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd. 1987

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