There was a country: a memoir
Achebe's long-awaited account of coming of age during the defining experience of his life: the Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War of 1967-1970.
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- Full title :There was a country : a memoir / Chinua Achebe.
Summary
Achebe's long-awaited account of coming of age during the defining experience of his life: the Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War of 1967-1970.
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- Publication Date:c2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Penguin Books
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:c2012.
The Physical Object
- Description:333 p. : : map ; : 22 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780143124030, 014312403X, 9781594204821, 1594204829
- oclc:on1086326457
- Dewey Decimal:823.914
Table of Contents
Pioneers of a new frontier -- The magical years -- A primary exposure -- Leaving home -- The formative years at Umuahia and Ibadan -- Meeting Christie and her family -- Discovering Things fall apart -- A lucky generation -- The march to independence -- The cradle of Nigerian nationalism -- Post-independence Nigeria -- The decline -- The role of the writer in Africa -- 1966 (poem) -- January 15, 1966, coup -- The dark days -- Benin road (poem) -- A history of the ethnic tension and resentment -- The army -- Countercoup and assassination -- The pogroms -- Penalty of Godhead (peom) -- The Aburi Accord Generaltion gap (poem) -- The nightmare begins -- The Nigeria-Biafra war -- The triangle game : the UK, France, and the United States -- The writers and intellectuals -- The war and the Nigerian intellectual -- The life and work of Christopher Okigbo -- The major Nigerian actors in the conflict : Ojukwu and Gowon -- The first shot (poem) -- The Biafran invasion of the Mid-West -- Gowon Regroups -- The Asaba massacre -- Biafran repercussions -- Blood, blood, everywhere -- The Calabar massacre -- Biafra, 1969 (poem) -- The Republic of Biafra -- Traveling on behalf of Biafra. se of terrori…
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