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2 days ago · Written by Caleb Ogbaji. 0
2 days ago · Accounts of the Biafran war have been memorialized in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s searing novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, Chinua Achebe’s iconic book, There Was a Country, Louis Chude-Sokei’s ...
1 day ago · This piqued my curiosity because I felt like I was speaking again. It led me to rediscover the arts in the form of African literature from the likes of Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, something I had long since forgotten since finishing secondary school. I wrote reviews of books I read on my personal blog.
2 days ago · It ended in 1970 with the crushing defeat of the nascent Biafran republic. Accounts of the Biafran war have been memorialized in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s searing novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, Chinua Achebe’s iconic book, There Was a Country, Louis Chude-Sokei’s terrific memoir, Floating in a Most Peculiar Way, and elsewhere.
3 days ago · It ended in 1970 with the crushing defeat of the nascent Biafran republic. Account of the Biafran war have been memorialized Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s searing novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, Chinua Achebe’s iconic book, There Was a Country, and Louis Chude-Sokei’s terrific memoir, Floating in a Most Peculiar Way, among other accounts.
5 days ago · Chinua Achebe – “Things Fall Apart” (ch. 5 the end) The second day of the new year is the day of the great wrestling match, and Ekwefi, Okonkwo’s second wife, is a great fan. She fell in love with Okonkwo when she was a young village beauty and he won the famous wrestling match with the man known as the Cat because of his skill.
3 days ago · Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe. This was the first time I encountered prose writing that felt truly poetic. Achebe unfolds his story so delicately only to bludgeon us with the stark realities of colonial history towards the end.
