Anthills of the Savannah | Social Concerns
The political upheaval described in the earlier novel A Man of the People (1966) has worsened by the time this novel is set, and many of the same social and political concerns are present and treated with greater scope and depth. Once again, the country is governed by a corrupt and bungling regime, this time a military one, the chief travesty of social conscience this time being the neglect of not only the surrounding poor people, but the starving people in Abazon, the fictional Biafra. (In fact, one reason why Achebe has not produced a novel for almost twenty years is that he has...
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