TY - BOOK ID - 8854634 TI - There was a country : a personal history of Biafra PY - 2013 SN - 9780241959206 9781594204821 0241959209 PB - London : Penguin Books, DB - UniCat KW - Civil War, Nigeria, 1967-1970 KW - Authors, Nigerian KW - Achebe, Chinua. KW - Civil War (Nigeria : KW - Nigeria, Eastern KW - Biafra KW - Eastern Nigeria KW - #SBIB:39A5 KW - #SBIB:39A73 KW - Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning KW - Etnografie: Afrika KW - Achebe, Albert Chinua KW - Achebe, Chinualumogu Albert KW - Ats'ebeh, Ts'inuʼa KW - Acībī, Cinūā KW - Achebe, Albert Chinualumogu KW - אצ׳בה, צ׳ינוא KW - أتشينى، شينوا KW - Nigeria KW - History KW - Politics KW - Achebe, Chinua KW - anno 1960-1969 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8854634 AB - From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart-a long-awaited memoir of coming of age in a fragile new nation, and its destruction in a tragic civil war. For more than forty years, Chinua Achebe has maintained a considered silence on the events of the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War, of 1967-1970, addressing them only obliquely through his poetry. Now, decades in the making, comes a towering account of one of modern Africa's most disastrous events, from a writer whose words and courage have left an enduring stamp on world literature. A marriage of history and memoir, vivid firsthand observation and decades of research and reflection, There Was a Country is a work whose wisdom and compassion remind us of Chinua Achebe's place as one of the great literary and moral voices of our age. ER -