[ There Was a Country By Achebe, Chinua ( Author ) Paperback 2013 ]
by:
Chinua Achebe (author)
Format: Paperback
ASIN: B00MZP3UN2
Publish date: 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Sep-24-2013
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, ...
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