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Chinua Achebe

“...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 identical twins in the morning might quiet easily find themselves in the evening one as President shitting on the heads of the people and the other a nightman carrying the people's shit in buckets on his head.”

Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah
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Anthills of the Savannah Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe
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