Half of a Yellow Sun

One of the most powerful, dramatic and emotionally charged novels of modern Africa that the world has ever seen. A story about love, faith, disappointment and survival in the conditions of war. About moral responsibility, the end of colonialism, ethnic loyalty, class and race—and how love can complicate it all.

The half yellow sun in the center of the red, black and green flag symbolizes the glorious future of Biafra, a young state in southeastern Nigeria that won independence in the late 1960s. Five Biafrans - the rural teenager Ugwu, the revolutionary-minded professor Odenibo, the British emigrant Richard and the dissimilar twins Olanna and Kainani - live during the war. They love, betray, discuss politics, flee from shelling, find themselves, lose loved ones and still believe in victory. The author successfully combined the intimate stories of the heroes with the general political context of the war and the fate of Nigeria.