Half of a Yellow Sun

from CBJames

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is not about the Biafra war. It's a family drama set before and during the Biafra war. It is to Ms. Adichie's great credit that the reader does not have to know anything about the setting or the events of the war; her story will tell us all we need...

from sjmccreary

This is the powerfully told story of the Biafran War in Nigeria in the late 1960's. Following its independence from Britian in 1960, the different ethnic groups in Nigeria began experiencing more and more conflict among themselves as Nigeria struggled to establish itself among the nations of Afri...

from drachenbraut23

"Red was the blood of the siblings massacred in the North, black was for mourning them, green was for the prosperity Biafra would have, and, finally, the half of a yellow sun stood for the glorious future." The colours of the Biafran flag Half of the Yellow Sun is set in Nigeria and tells of the ...

from lit_chick

"Red was the blood of the siblings massacred in the North, black was for mourning them, green was for the prosperity Biafra would have, and, finally, the half of a yellow sun stood for the glorious future." (352) Adichie illuminates Biafra's struggle in the late 1960s to establish itself as an in...

from sainsborough

I am purposely writing this review before reading what anyone else has to say about this book, so that I am not influenced by others' comments and can write a truly personal response. I enjoyed it and would recommend it to anyone. Having said that, I have a few slight reservations: In my edition,...