Anthills of the Savannah | Related Titles
Girls at War and Other Stories (1972) is the only other fictional work by Achebe that responds to the upheaval of the internecine wars that followed British rule. The title story documents the deterioration of a man's priorities and, the narrator thinks, a woman's goals and personality as a result of the war climate and mentions the ‘‘parties and frivolities to which his friends clung like drowning men.’’ He is shocked when Gladys uses the word ‘‘shell’’ for having sex, and disturbed about how grateful she is for the food he gives her when their brief affair appears...
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