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Anthills of the Savannah is set in the fictitious West African country of Kangan, which is marked by social unrest and political intrigue. While it is
Anthills of the Savannah is set in the fictitious West African country of Kangan, which is marked by social unrest and political intrigue. While it is Achebe's fifth novel, it is the fourth novel of his that I've read—after the African Trilogy, the first of which (Things Fall Apart ) was one of my favorite books in high school. Anthills is definitely the weakest of the bunch. The beginning is rough—you are thrown into an unclear situation which, at least for me, rather than generating interest more frequently annoys—and, while the story does become better and more interesting as the novel progresses, it still feels rather flat overall. Not just flat in terms of failing to evoke an emotional response, but some parts also come across as artificial—the bits of social and political criticism which, though fascinating at times, appear to be thrown into the story rather than organically emerging from it.
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"Our women made black patterns on their bodies with the juice of the uli tree. It was beautiful, but it soon faded. If it lasted two market weeks it l
"Our women made black patterns on their bodies with the juice of the uli tree. It was beautiful, but it soon faded. If it lasted two market weeks it lasted a long time. But sometimes our elders spoke about uli that never faded, although no one had ever seen it. We see it today in the writing of the white man. If you go to the native court and look at the books which clerks wrote twenty years ago or more, they are still as they wrote them. They do not say one thing today and another tomorrow, or one thing this year and another next year. In the Bible Pilate said: 'What is written is written.' It is uli that never fades."
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date pub 1975
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