Elaine Showalter, the U.S. literary critic who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, is cited in “The Tyranny of a Literary Critic” (Erasmus Ndulue, This Day Live, 15.05.12): “In 1987 or thereabouts, the eminent poet, Odia Ofeimun, dismissed the first six chapters of Achebe’s ‘Anthills of the Savannah’, as ‘a near disaster’. But the Somali writer, Nurudin Farah, reviewing the book that same year in the defunct West Africa Magazine, acknowledged the book ‘as an outstanding work by Africa’s most accomplished writer’. Twenty years after Ofeimun’s unflattering review of ‘Anthills’, the panel of judges for the 2007 Man Booker International Prize, headed by Elaine Showalter, a professor of Humanities at Princeton College, singled out ‘Anthills’, not even the acclaimed ‘Things Fall Apart’, as Achebe’s masterpiece”
Elaine Showalter, the U.S. literary critic who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, is cited in “The Tyranny of a Literary Critic” (Erasmus Ndulue, This Day Live, 15.05.12): “In 1987 or thereabouts, the eminent poet, Odia Ofeimun, dismissed the first six chapters of Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah, as ‘a near disaster’. But the Somali writer, Nurudin Farah, reviewing the book that same year in the defunct West Africa Magazine, acknowledged the book ‘as an outstanding work by Africa’s most accomplished writer’. Twenty years after Ofeimun’s unflattering review of Anthills, the panel of judges for the 2007 Man Booker International Prize, headed by Elaine Showalter, a professor of Humanities at Princeton College, singled out Anthills, not even the acclaimed Things Fall Apart, as Achebe’s masterpiece.”
