Anthills of the Savannah | Literary Precedents
By the time this novel was published, many other Africans including Nigerian ones had begun to publish their books, and there is therefore a richer set of contemporary African influences than in previous novels. Innes notes as ‘‘sometimes explicit more often implicit literary models’’ Christopher Okigbo, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Wole Soyinka, Nurruddin Farah, Sembene Ousman, Leopold Sedar Senghor, David Diop (an excerpt from whose poem ‘‘Africa’’ introduces Chapter 10), and ‘‘younger writers such as Chinweizu and Festus lyayi.’’ The Zulu poems of Mazizi Kunene are...
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