Search Results for ‘Nigeria’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’ - 3 matches found

Half of a Yellow Sun

Half of a Yellow Sun is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s second novel; set in 1960s Nigeria, a time of vicious civil war when well over a million people died.
Her three main characters are each drawn into...

Things Fall Apart

First published in 1958, Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart is one of the modern age's defining books - the book that marked African independence and in one leap created a powerful, vivid Nigerian literature...

You Must Set Forth at Dawn

The first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as a political activist of prodigious energies, Wole Soyinka now follows his modern classic “Ake: The Years of Childhood” with an...