Review: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I decided to read this book because I’ve heard so many good things about Adichie’s writing. And I happened to find this book in my used book store, so I picked it up, and after a spell on my TBR shelf I finally got around to reading it. I didn’t really have any idea what this book was about, but it turns out it was an interesting topic. The book follows a number of main protagonists living in Nigeria in the 1960s. This is the time when part of Nigeria broke free to form the independant republic of Biafra. Biafra was short-lived however, as war broke out with Nigeria and the enthusiasm of the Biafran people could just not make up for a lack of an army or international trade connections. The book follows an extended family including two sisters, their lovers/husbands and a houseboy. It starts off with the houseboy, Ugwu, coming to work for Odenigbo. We see the life lived by the intellectuals in what will eventually become Biafra in the 1960s, and we see how Od...