Anthills na Savannah

Anthills of the Savannah (Anthills na Savannah)  labari ne na shekarar 1987, wanda marubuci ɗan Najeriya Chinua Achebe . Littafinsa ne na biyar, wanda aka fara buga shi a Ingila shekaru 21 bayan na Achebe na baya ( A Man of the People a 1966), kuma an ba da labarin cewa ya “farfado da sunansa a Biritaniya”. Jaggi, Maya (18 November 2000), "Storyteller of the savannah", The Guardian. An bayyana dan wasan karshe na 1987 Booker Prize for Fiction, Anthills na Savannah an bayyana shi a matsayin "mafi mahimmancin labari da zai fito daga Afirka a cikin [1980s]". Ehling, Holger G. (1991). Critical Approaches to Anthills of the Savannah. The Netherlands: Rodopi. 1. Masu suka sun yaba wa littafin bayan fitowar sa.

 Makirci 
Anthills na Savannah yana faruwa ne a ƙasar Kangan da ke yammacin Afirka, inda wani jami'in Sandhurst da ya horar da shi, wanda aka sani da Sam wanda aka fi sani da "His Excellency", ya karɓi mulki bayan juyin mulkin da sojoji suka yi. Achebe ya bayyana halin da ake ciki na siyasa ta hanyar abubuwan da abokai uku: Chris Oriko, kwamishinan yada labarai na gwamnati; Beatrice Okoh, jami’a a ma’aikatar kudi kuma budurwar Chris; da Ikem Osodi, editan jarida mai sukar gwamnatin. Sauran jaruman sun hada da Elewa, budurwar Ikem, da Manjo "Samsonite" Ossai, wani jami'in soja wanda ya shahara wajen hada hannu da na'urar Samsonite stapler. Hankali ya ta'azzara a ko'ina cikin littafin, har ya kai ga kashe Ikem da gwamnati ta yi, da kisar da Sam da kuma mutuwarsa, daga karshe kuma aka kashe Chris. Littafin ya ƙare da bikin ba na gargajiya na Elewa da 'yar Ikem 'yar wata-wata, wanda Beatrice ta shirya.

 liyafar 
Littafin ya samu karbuwa sosai daga masu suka. Charles Johnson, wanda ya rubuta wa jaridar Washington Post, ya yaba wa littafin amma ya zargi Achebe saboda gazawa wajen fitar da halayensa.  Nadine Gordimer ta yaba da barkwancin littafin, musamman idan aka bambanta da sifofinsa na ban tsoro.https://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/21/books/a-tyranny-of-clowns.html?pagewanted=all 

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Hanyoyin hadi na waje
 D. A. N. Jones, "Powerful People" (review), London Review of Books, Vol. 9, No. 18, 15 October 1987, pp. 24–25.
 Charles Johnson, "‘Anthills of the Savannah’ by Chinua Achebe" (review), The Washington Post, 22 March 2013; reprinted from 7 February 1988.
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