Writing the Nigeria-Biafra War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Writing the Nigeria-Biafra War write by Toyin Falola. This book was released on 2016. Writing the Nigeria-Biafra War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 21 Female Participation in War and the Implication of Nationalism: The Postcolonial Disconnection in Buchi Emecheta's Destination Biafra -- Select Bibliography -- Index
The Nigeria-Biafra War
The Nigeria-Biafra War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Nigeria-Biafra War write by . This book was released on . The Nigeria-Biafra War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
There Was a Country
There Was a Country - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook There Was a Country write by Chinua Achebe. This book was released on 2012-10-11. There Was a Country available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart—a long-awaited memoir of coming of age in a fragile new nation, and its destruction in a tragic civil war For more than forty years, Chinua Achebe maintained a considered silence on the events of the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War, of 1967–1970, addressing them only obliquely through his poetry. Decades in the making, There Was a Country is a towering account of one of modern Africa’s most disastrous events, from a writer whose words and courage left an enduring stamp on world literature. A marriage of history and memoir, vivid firsthand observation and decades of research and reflection, There Was a Country is a work whose wisdom and compassion remind us of Chinua Achebe’s place as one of the great literary and moral voices of our age.
Half of a Yellow Sun
Half of a Yellow Sun - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Half of a Yellow Sun write by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. This book was released on 2010-10-29. Half of a Yellow Sun available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With her award-winning debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was heralded by the Washington Post Book World as the “21st century daughter” of Chinua Achebe. Now, in her masterly, haunting new novel, she recreates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra’s impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria during the 1960s. With the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Adichie weaves together the lives of five characters caught up in the extraordinary tumult of the decade. Fifteen-year-old Ugwu is houseboy to Odenigbo, a university professor who sends him to school, and in whose living room Ugwu hears voices full of revolutionary zeal. Odenigbo’s beautiful mistress, Olanna, a sociology teacher, is running away from her parents’ world of wealth and excess; Kainene, her urbane twin, is taking over their father’s business; and Kainene’s English lover, Richard, forms a bridge between their two worlds. As we follow these intertwined lives through a military coup, the Biafran secession and the subsequent war, Adichie brilliantly evokes the promise, and intimately, the devastating disappointments that marked this time and place. Epic, ambitious and triumphantly realized, Half of a Yellow Sun is a more powerful, dramatic and intensely emotional picture of modern Africa than any we have had before.
Women and the Nigeria-Biafra War
Women and the Nigeria-Biafra War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women and the Nigeria-Biafra War write by Gloria Chuku. This book was released on 2020-10-07. Women and the Nigeria-Biafra War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This first comprehensive study of the Nigeria-Biafra War (1967-1970) through the lens of gender explores the valiant and gallant ways women carried out old and new responsibilities in wartime and immediate postwar Nigeria. The book presents women as embodiments of vulnerability and agency, who demonstrated remarkable resilience and initiative, waging war on all fronts in the face of precarious conditions and scarcities, and maximizing opportunities occasioned by the hostilities. Women’s experiences are highlighted through critical analyses of oral interviews, memoirs, life histories, fashion and material culture, international legal conventions, music, as well as governmental and non-governmental sources. The book fills the gap in the war scholarship that has minimized women’s complex experiences fifty years after the hostilities ended. It highlights the cost of the conflict on Nigerian women, their participation in the hostilities, and their contributions to the survival of families, communities and the country. The chapters present counter-narratives to fictional and nonfictional accounts of the war, especially those written by men, which often peripheralize or stereotypically represent women as passive spectators or helpless victims of the conflict; and also highlight and exaggerate women’s moral laxity and sensationalize their marital infidelities.
