There was a Country

There was a Country A Personal History of Biafra

Chinua Achebe2012
A world-renowned novelist describes what it was like living through the Biafran War in Nigeria from 1967-1970, detailing the horror of those terrible years and discussing what that time has come to mean for him as a writer. 50,000 first printing.
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