Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie

Author: Chimamanda Adichie
Series: Kwani

In 1967, most African nations were caught up in the euphoria of the independence movement that had recently swept the continent. But when Nigeria’s Igbo people declared their independence from the mother state, the country became one of the first in post-colonial Africa to go to war with itself. Half of a Yellow Sun is the masterful recounting of that divisive history, told by one of the brightest stars of African letters, Chimamanda Adichie. Herself a descendent of players in the Biafran war, Adichie tempers her personal compassion with a ruthless eye for the way history’s victims contribute to their own tragic ends.