One character in this novel points out that European cathedrals, the Taj Mahal, the pyramids, and Great Zimbabwe were all built by slave labor, before meeting an American reporter named Cranford who is clapping her hands to dispose of salted peanut dust.
One character in this novel points out that European cathedrals, the Taj Mahal, the pyramids, and Great Zimbabwe were all built by slave labor, before meeting an American reporter named Cranford who is clapping her hands to dispose of salted peanut dust. Another character in this novel has a secondary name that means "a female is also something," and ends the book by praying "may this child be the daughter of all of us" and bestowing the name "may the path never close" on the newborn daughter of Elewa. The first chapters of this novel focus on a metaphor about the robes worn by truth delivered by a resident of Abazon who has journeyed to Bassa to ask for drought relief. Soon after, the obseqious Professor Okong advises a figure who was trained at Sandhurst and has recently lost a plebiscite. This novel sees all of its major characters die except for Beatrice; newspaper editor Ikem Osodi is killed after challenging Sam, while Chris Oriko, the Minister of Information, dies in the resulting chaos. For 10 points, name this work, its author's first novel in a twenty-one-year gap following A Man of the People, which is set in the state of Kangan shortly after a coup and was written by Chinua Achebe.
One character in this novel points out that European cathedrals, the Taj Mahal, the pyramids, and Great Zimbabwe were all built by slave labor, before meeting an American reporter named Cranford who is clapping her hands to dispose of salted peanut dust.
{Anthills of the Savannah}