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The translator, who said she fell in love with the works of Chinua Achebe when she encountered his 'Anthills of the Savannah', said the job gave her a deep sense of fulfilment and was hopeful that 'Titleann Rudai as a Cheile' will bring enlightenment and knowledge to her native Irish readers.

Only later-evolving members reduced their teeth and evolved a hand with a huge, single claw capable - perhaps - of tearing open rotting logs and anthills.

WE walked along the mountain top and the ground was peppered with thick clumps of coarse, wild grass and domed anthills with wimberry and heather in between.

Oh, no, you realize, you're being punished by the nuno sa punso, supernatural creatures inhabiting anthills or termite mounds.

Every morning, her chores include sweeping away anthills, and feeding baby monkeys.

Depending on the species, such anthills can range in size from a tiny pile of sand grains that is less than an inch across to a huge mound several feet high and many cubic yards in volume.

Social insects, such as ants and termites, build their anthills oriented to the sun.

Like the character, Ikem Osodi, in his novel, Anthills of the Savannah, Achebe insists that the role of the writer in Africa is "to widen the scope of that self-examination [...] And not to foreclose it with catchy, half-baked orthodoxy" (158).

His final novel Anthills of the Savannah, deals with the growing political pandemic of dictatorships in Africa.