There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra
by:
Chinua Achebe (author)
Chinua Achebe,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Penguin Group (USA)
Chinua Achebe,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Penguin Group (USA)
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780143124030 (014312403X)
ASIN: 014312403X
Publish date: September 24th 2013
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
I was disappointed in this book. Achebe is truly a great writer and I was so looking forward to learning about the Biafran War/Nigerian Civil War. But this book is boring. It has moments of interesting storytelling, moments of stirring railing against the injustices done to the Igbos, but there's so...
A fascinating work of memoir and history. I found Achebe's discussion of the Nigeria-Biafra War particularly enlightening as knew little about the conflict.
When I first read Chinua Achebe at age 11 (Things Fall Apart), he was one of the few African writers I'd read growing up. As an African I often wondered why there weren't too many books about Africa written by Africans. Things are changing now but when I was growing up that wasn't the case.As such, ...
12 years ago
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