A review by sar_p
Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe

4.0

A great book looking at the "postcolonial" condition. Achebe uses a fictional country, but, really, it could be any nation who finds itself free for the first time in a century or two and is trying to figure out how to rule itself. Human nature is bound to get in the way: greed, the thirst for power, and the obligation to rebel against tyranny. At times it seems that the Western reader is pushed out through the use of pidgin, but I do think that this book, more than the story of Africa, is a story of human nature. I say this knowing that Achebe would likely shake his head and tell me I have it all wrong.