Half of a Yellow Sun, a novel about the Biafra-Nigerian civil war, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Half of a Yellow Sun was a novel I read last summer. My sister had mentioned the book as having reminded her of what happened during the 1967-1970 Biafra versus Nigeria civil war. The clincher to read it, though, […]
Month: February 2015
Save My Village
On December 22, 2014, three days before Christmas, Matt’s journey was slow and seemingly endless. A forty-minute road trip from Owerri to Umuezeaga, his home village, stretched to over three hours. The reasons were obvious. The roads were clogged with vehicles lined up bumper-to-bumper, each diving into valleys and emerging on the mounds of hills […]