In the quote above, Odenigbo tries to make a point about how he was an Igbo man long before colonization. ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’showed how the identity of Nigeria before and after the colonial era set the stage for the civil war.
But I was Igbo before the white man came. I am black because the white man constructed black to be as different as possible from his white. I am Nigerian because a white man created Nigeria and gave me that identity. My point is that the only authentic identity for the African is the tribe. This extraordinary novel is about Africa in a wider sense: about moral responsibility, about the end of colonialism, about ethnic allegiances, about class and race and about the ways in which love can complicate all of these things.Inspired by the civil war that happened at the inception of Nigeria, ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ uses quotes that show how the war ruined lives these quotes deliver raw emotions that tell a story of how the civil war set a stage for more conflict. As these people's lives intersect, they have to question their own responses to the unfolding political events. And the third is a white man, a writer who lives in Nigeria for no clear reason, and who falls in love with Olanna's twin sister, a remote and enigmatic character.
The other is a young middle-class woman, Olanna, who has to confront the reality of the massacre of her relatives. One is a young boy from a poor village who is employed at a university lecturer's house. The three main characters in the novel are swept up in the violence during these turbulent years.
This highly anticipated novel from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is set in Nigeria during the 1960s, at the time of a vicious civil war in which a million people died and thousands were massacred in cold blood. One of the ten books - novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography - that make up our Matchbook Classics' series, a stunningly redesigned collection of some of the best loved titles on our backlist. THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'WINNER OF WINNERS' A heartbreaking, exquisitely written masterpiece.
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