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With easy elegance, famous writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal time in contemporary African history: Biafrais impassioned find it difficult to create a completely independent republic in southeastern Nigeria throughout the late-1960s. We encounter this tumultuous decade alongside five memorable characters: Ugwu, a thirteen-year-old houseboy who functions for Odenigbo, a college teacher saturated in revolutionary enthusiasm; Olanna, the professor’s stunning young mistress who has forgotten her existence in Lagos for a messy city and her lover’s appeal; and Rich, a timid young Englishman fascinated with Olanna’s willful double sibling Kainene. Half a Yellow Sun is just a greatly evocative book of the offer, frustration, and hope of the Biafran conflict.