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English literature --- Africa --- African literature (English) --- African literature --- History and criticism. --- Intellectual life. --- Littérature africaine (anglaise) --- Littérature africaine --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Eastern Hemisphere
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"The novel takes place in the imaginary West African country of Kangan, where a Sandhurst-trained officer, identified only as Sam and known as His Excellency, has taken power following a military coup. Achebe describes the political situation through the experiences of three friends: Chris Oriko, the government's Commissioner for Information; Beatrice Okoh, an official in the Ministry of Finance and girlfriend of Chris; and Ikem Osodi, a newspaper editor critical of the regime. Other characters include Elewa, Ikem's girlfriend and Major "Samsonite" Ossai, a military official known for stapling hands with a Samsonite stapler. Tensions escalate through the novel, culminating in the assassination of Ikem by the regime, the toppling and death of Sam and finally the murder of Chris. The novel ends with a non-traditional naming ceremony for Elewa and Ikem's month old daughter, organized by Beatrice."--Wikipedia.
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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.
Civil War, Nigeria, 1967-1970 --- Authors, Nigerian --- Achebe, Chinua. --- Civil War (Nigeria : --- Nigeria, Eastern --- Biafra --- Eastern Nigeria --- #SBIB:39A5 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Achebe, Albert Chinua --- Achebe, Chinualumogu Albert --- Ats'ebeh, Ts'inuʼa --- Acībī, Cinūā --- Achebe, Albert Chinualumogu --- אצ׳בה, צ׳ינוא --- أتشينى، شينوا --- Nigeria --- History --- Politics --- Achebe, Chinua --- anno 1960-1969
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Nigeria --- Social life and customs --- -Fiction. --- Nigeria (Federation) --- Federation of Nigeria --- Nigerija --- Federal Republic of Nigeria --- Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria --- Republic of Nigeria --- Federal Military Government (Nigeria) --- Nai-chi-li-ya --- Nigerii︠a︡ --- Bundesrepublik Nigeria --- Jamhuriyar Taraiyar Nijeriya --- Ọ̀hàńjíkọ̀ Ọ̀hànézè Naìjíríyà --- Orílẹ̀-èdè Olómìniira Àpapọ̀ Nàìjíríà --- ナイジェリア --- Naijeria --- ניגריה --- Nigeryah --- Fiction. --- English literature
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