Anthills of the Savannah
by Chinua Achebe
A dictatorship and the three friends it destroys.
you want to understand African post-independence disillusionment through the people who were supposed to build something better
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Achebe's final novel — Nigeria in the grip of a fictional military dictator, three childhood friends on different sides of power. A head of state, a minister, a newspaper editor. The revolution they believed in has curdled into something they helped create. Achebe wrote this in 1987 as a reckoning with what African independence had become — not the failure of African people but the failure of specific men who had choices. The most political and the most personal of his novels.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Nigeria • West Africa
- Voice
- Written by a Nigerian author
- Themes
- True Cost of Empire
