Powerful People
D.A.N. Jones, 15 October 1987
Anthills of the Savannah
by Chinua Achebe.
Heinemann, 233 pp., £10.95, September 1987,0 434 00604 1 Show More
by Chinua Achebe.
Heinemann, 233 pp., £10.95, September 1987,
“... civil servants, police chiefs – he knows what he is talking about. He is something like Conor Cruise O’Brien in this respect, better informed about government than most novelists and professors. Anthills of the Savannah is comparable with A Man of the People partly because it concerns a statesman under the scornful gaze of a well-educated ... ”
