![]() ![]() Beyond depicting the realities faced by civilians, the novel is an extensive critique of war - a source of disruption, starvation, sickness, and senseless violence in Half of a Yellow Sun. The text falls under the category of historical fiction. This bloodshed was followed by the formation of the state of Biafra in southern Nigeria and by a war that, as depicted in the novel, saw the Biafrans fighting more formidable Northern forces. ![]() Members of this ethnic group were targeted in a series of attacks that took place in northern Nigeria in 1966. In particular, Adichie focuses on the fates of characters of Igbo descent. It chronicles the Nigerian Civil War of the late 1960s, depicting a politically charged climate. Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) is one of the seminal works of literature written by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born in 1977). ![]()
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