Chinua Achebe Book There Was A Country

Chinua Achebe Book There Was A Country. A personal history of biafra by charles r. Always drawn to storytelling, chinua eventually found himself and rejected a full scholarship to medical school once he succumbed to the allure of the arts, especially writing.

The nigerian civil war, also. Chinua achebe, the author of things fall apart, was a writer whose moral courage and storytelling gifts have left an enduring stamp on world literature. A personal history of biafra by charles r.

Widely considered to be the father of modern african literature, he is best known for his masterful african trilogy, consisting of things fall apart, arrow of god, and no longer at ease.

Achebe offers a compelling argument that the conflict should be considered a genocide on par with the holocaust and recent atrocities in rwanda and darfur. Chinua achebe’s memoir about the moment when nigeria split apart at a cost of more than a million lives. Biafra seceded from nigeria in 1967. “there was a country” by chinua achebe.