Mar 31, 2024
There Was a Country is a very intimate portrait of the Nigerian Civil War (widely perpetuated as the Biafran War) which lasted from 1967 to 1970. What I enjoyed most about Chinua Achebe’s account of this devastating conflict is his comprehensive detailing of the...
Mar 4, 2023
I must preface my review of the anthology, The Thing Around Your Neck, by stating that I have previously read Half of a Yellow Sun by the author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Therefore, my expectations were perhaps a bit lofty going into reading this collection of short...
Sep 25, 2022
“Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silence? Is it this belonging, this completeness?” Chimamanda Ngozi Adicie’s sophomore novel, Half of a Yellow Sun is nothing short of a...
