There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra by Chinua Achebe

There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra

Chinua Achebe

352 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir politics emotional informative reflective medium-paced
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The defining experience of Chinua Achebe's life was the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War. For more than forty years Achebe was silent on those terrible years, until he produced this towering reckoning with one of modern Africa's m...

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