Chinua Achebe, The Anthills of the Savannah

Matthew Whittle (University of Kent at Canterbury)

Ed. by John Edward Masterson, University of Sussex
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 8.2.3: Anglophone African Writing and Culture: Subsaharan.
Vol. editors: Helen Rachel Cousins (Birmingham Newman University), David Firth (University of Manchester)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1987

Places

Nigeria (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

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Offering a comment on the paranoia of life in a totalitarian state, Chinua Achebe remarks in his fifth novel,

Anthills of the Savannah

(1987), that:

Worshipping a dictator is such a pain in the ass. It wouldn’t be so bad if it was merely a matter of dancing upside down on your head. With practice anyone could learn to do that. The real problem is having no way of knowing from one day to another, from one minute to the next, just what is up and what is down. (41)

It is

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Citation: Whittle, Matthew. "The Anthills of the Savannah". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 16 July 2014 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=13236, accessed 23 April 2024.]

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