Anthills of the Savannah

Anthills of the Savannah
First edition cover
AuthorChinua Achebe
LanguageEnglish
GenreLiterary Fiction
Set inKangan (fictional country)
PublisherHeinemann
Publication date
1987
Media typePrint
ISBN978-0-385-26045-9
OCLC19932181
Preceded byA Man of the People 
Followed byThere was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra 

Anthills of the Savannah is a 1987 novel by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe. It was his fifth novel, first published in the United Kingdom 21 years after Achebe's previous one (A Man of the People in 1966), and was credited with having "revived his reputation in Britain".[1] A finalist for the 1987 Booker Prize for Fiction, Anthills of the Savannah has been described as the "most important novel to come out of Africa in the [1980s]".[2] Critics praised the novel upon its release.

  1. ^ Jaggi, Maya (18 November 2000), "Storyteller of the savannah", The Guardian.
  2. ^ Ehling, Holger G. (1991). Critical Approaches to Anthills of the Savannah. The Netherlands: Rodopi. 1.