These characters, drawn together under His Excellency’s web, have to fight for their very survival as the state of Kangan is plunged into chaos. Chris Oriko, the Minister of Information and Ikem Osodi, a poet and editor of a newspaper, and Beatrice Okoh, a Minister of Finance and Chris’s girlfriend. The novel follows three characters through this maelstrom. After he is defeated in a vital referendum, his role as dictator becomes unsteady, and there can be no other response but more violence. A charismatic young Sandhurst trainer army officer, known only in the novel as Sam or His Excellency, has been swept into power in the troubled state of Kangan. Whereas A Man of the People saw events leading up to a coup, Anthills of the Savannah is post-coup. He served as the David and Marianna Fisher university professor of Africana studies at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, United States.Īnthills of the Savannah see Achebe returning to similar territory as his last novel, A Man of the People – politics of post-colonial Africa. He also published a number of short stories, children's books, and essay collections. His style relied heavily on the Igbo oral tradition, and combines straightforward narration with representations of folk stories, proverbs, and oratory. Novels of Achebe focus on the traditions of Igbo society, the effect of Christian influences, and the clash of values during and after the colonial era. He lived in the United States for several years in the 1970s, and after a car accident left him partially disabled, he returned to the United States in 1990. When the Nigerian government retook the region in 1970, he involved in political parties but witnessed the corruption and elitism that duly frustration him, who quickly resigned. The war ravaged the populace, and as starvation and violence took its toll, he appealed to the people of Europe and the Americas for aid. When the region of Biafra broke away from Nigeria in 1967, Achebe, a devoted supporter of independence, served as ambassador for the people of the new nation. In 1975, controversy focused on his lecture An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" for its criticism of Joseph Conrad as "a bloody racist." Achebe defended the use of English, a "language of colonizers," in African literature. He gained worldwide attention in the late 1950s his later novels include No Longer at Ease (1960), Arrow of God (1964), A Man of the People (1966), and Anthills of the Savannah (1987). After graduation, he worked for the Nigerian broadcasting service and quickly moved to the metropolis of Lagos. World religions and traditional African cultures fascinated him, who began stories as a university student. People best know and most widely read his first book in modern African literature.Ĭhristian parents in the Igbo town of Ogidi in southeastern Nigeria reared Achebe, who excelled at school and won a scholarship for undergraduate studies. This poet and critic served as professor at Brown University. Works, including the novel Things Fall Apart (1958), of Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe describe traditional African life in conflict with colonial rule and westernization.
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