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Anthills of the Savannah

A searing satire of political corruption and social injustice from the celebrated author of Things Fall Apart In the fictional West African nation of Kangan, newly independent of British rule, the hopes and dreams of democra

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“But knowing or not knowing does not save us from being known.”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com

Tagged: Knowing, Being Known

“Aha! Come to think of it, that might explain the insistence of the oppressed that the oppressor must not be allowed to camouflage his appearance or confuse the poor by stealing and masquerading in their clothes. Perhaps it is the demand of that primitive integrity of the earth... Or, who knows, it m…”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com

Tagged: Oppressor, Camouflage, Integrity, Wrath, Privilege

“In the vocabulary of certain radical theorists contradictions are given the status of some deadly disease to which their opponents alone can succumb. But contradictions are the very stuff of life. If there had been a little dash of contradiction among the Gadarene swine some of them might have been…”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com

Tagged: Radical Theory, disease, Contradictions

“...she was sensitive enough and intelligent enough to understand, and her literary education could not but have sharpened her perception of the evidence before her eyes: that in the absurd raffle-draw that apportioned the destinies of post-colonial African societies two people starting off even as i…”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com

Tagged: Sensitive, intelligent, Raffle, African Societies, Shit

“It is only the story...that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence. The story is our escort; without it, we are blind. Does the blind man own his escort? No, neither do we the story; rather, it is the story that owns us.”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com

Tagged: Story, Blundering, Beggars

“Procrastination is a lazy man's apology.”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com

Tagged: procrastination, Lazy, Apologizing For A Lack of Apology

“Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com

Tagged: Writers, Prescriptions, headaches

“Charity…is the opium of the privileged.”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com

Tagged: charity, Telescopic Philanthropy, Opium, privileged