There Was A Country: Achebe's Final Work
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-1-2013
Department
History
School
Humanities
Abstract
Even at a perfunctory level, a comparative look at the conflicts that took place in the US between the Union and the Confederacy and the one between Nigeria and the Republic of Biafra in 1966-1970 reveals enough to corroborate Chinua Achebe's bold charge made in his last book, There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra, that the Igbo have been wrongly persecuted in Nigeria. Confirmatory pointers to hatred and resentment of the Igbo can still be gleaned long after the Biafra War. So are those that indicate continuing marginalization of and refusal to reintegrate the Igbo, and the areas that made up the Republic of Biafra. © The Author(s) 2013.
Publication Title
Journal of Asian and African Studies
Volume
48
Issue
6
First Page
752
Last Page
759
Recommended Citation
Chambers, D.
(2013). There Was A Country: Achebe's Final Work. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 48(6), 752-759.
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