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  • By Categories: Authors, Fiction Literature, History Literature, NigeriaPublished On: October 27, 2024

    Book Summary

    Half of a Yellow Sun, a novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, tells the story of the Biafran War in Nigeria during the 1960s through the perspectives of three main characters: Ugwu, a young Igbo boy who becomes a houseboy for a university lecturer named Odenigbo; Olanna, Odenigbo’s lover and a beautiful and educated woman from a wealthy family; and Richard, an Englishman who falls in love with Olanna’s twin sister, Kainene.

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