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A review by zajtrajsok
Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe
3.5
• Confusing time jumps and POV shifts. It took me a while to get used to them.
• I'm not gonna lie, I had to look up a lot Nigerian Pidgin English words to make sense of some dialogues. That's not really a complaint, though.
• The ending! I have hoped for a happy ending, but that's not how it works in the real world. Some say the book's ending is hopeful, even optimistic, but I just feel like it implies that history will keep repeating itself again and again, which I guess is true.
• I'm sure that many references and connections flew right over my head, since I know very little about politics and history, but it was still an interesting read that gave me some insight into Nigeria and other African countries.
• I'm not gonna lie, I had to look up a lot Nigerian Pidgin English words to make sense of some dialogues. That's not really a complaint, though.
• The ending! I have hoped for a happy ending, but that's not how it works in the real world. Some say the book's ending is hopeful, even optimistic, but I just feel like it implies that history will keep repeating itself again and again, which I guess is true.
• I'm sure that many references and connections flew right over my head, since I know very little about politics and history, but it was still an interesting read that gave me some insight into Nigeria and other African countries.