Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie essays

Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie essaysA masterly, haunting novel from a writer heralded byThe Washington Post Book Worldas "the 21st century daughter of Chinua Achebe,"Half of a Yellow Sunrecreates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria, and the chilling violence that followed. Published in 2006, Half of A Yellow Sun garnered numerous accolades and was awarded the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2007. With

These figures include personalities such as Carl Van Vechten

Chapters including Earth & Universe

Did Mandela work for nothing

First published: September 2012

Telling Times becomes both a literary exploration and extraordinary document of

seeking a state without a nation

Arimah can compress a family history into a few pages and invent utopian parables

and studio guru Duncan Bridgeman

interviews and letters written by Steve Biko at the time

he sees angels when he plays a beautiful piece of music

as well as cave paintings and children's drawings - and is often full of inner demons and dark

so imposing without attempting to be so