This shld be taught in history classes in Nigerian curriculum . It is a shame that the non igbos of Nigeria want to hide this evil. There shld be a remembrance day for our biafran heroes that died fighting against injustice perpetrates against the IGbos of Nigeria. It is a shame that we claim to be democratic while all pro-biafrans are threatened with death
The novel Yellow in the sun by Chimamand is an inspiration to all Nigerians who believe that there should be unity in diversity.For intance there are people that don't know anything about the war, they only heard a fraction the horrific things that happened to a people then but with her story they will come to understand the nature of equality and good living for all.I hope someone can understand where am coming from,that she reproduced the picture of what happened so that we can learn from it.
You are so right Chimamanda, the wound is even getting deeper with continued evil and hatred of Igbos getting worse than before the war... Nigeria is just a British curse that will remain so until the people wake up and know the truth...!
The lady on glasses was hitting the nail on the head, Nigeria is a heap toxic explosives that will soon explode and consume those evil hostage takers.
Abeg, the book was interesting. People write about the past and we can learn from our past by acknowledging and written about it instead of sweeping it under the rug.
Chimamanda, I love you. Your books are inspirational.
Funmi, i love you as well. I love your videos but don't be ignorant. You are too smart to be ignorant.
Why ask her that question. Who knows, maybe Chimamanda was among the small children who were sadly affected by the Biafra War. It's not a long time ago ish. It hasn't even been a decade when the war occurred. It something that affected millions of people, majority that were in nigeria when that war occurred are still alive (my parents for example). Why don't you go and tell those people that it's a long and forgotten war.
This woman on black is not serious...The African culture of not talking about the past that hurt us is bullshit and that is why we would never move forward. How would people who lost loved ones and lived in total horror for years forget and not talk about it simply beacuse of sentiments? I lost my grandparents and sister in a horrifying way my parents said and it hurts! The june 12 saga is not forgotten by the yorubas and that is how it's meant to be. Talk abt the past even if it hurts!!!!
I've read Half a Yellow Sun last year- it's translated into Serbian, and it was the best book I've read in the last couple of years. Although I'm a history professor this book is also the first detailed account I've read regarding the Biafran War/Nigerian Civil War, considering that one page in the main history book pretty much covered this topic at our universites.
Her works are definitely not an encouragement for splitting Nigeria. Her work illustrates the stupidity, brazenness, callousness and loss of basic human quality that comes with war. only lesson to learn is to say NEVER AGAIN!
i cnt stand it when pple say "move on" or "get over it, it happened yrs ago". like stfu! go and tell that to the Jews and watch them kiss u 4 it. rubbish!
I 've just read the book. It blew me away. I was right there in the middle of the action. Chimanda, you are a beautiful, wonderfull person. I love you.
I am so proud of Ms Adichie. She has always been like this...smart , cute and on-point. She was my classmate at University of Nigeria pharmacy school. She knows what is at stake like Achebe put it. I just want to tell her congratulations on all her great achievements. She is doing what she knows how best to do.
Chimamanda is a beautiful, intelligent, and wise igbo girl. am proud of her we are igbo before nigeria. people in that fake country were force united nigeria doesn,t exist the sooner we act the better for us.
When a relationship has been tried and found not only impossible but highly costly between parties, the only logical solution to adopt is separation. That separation is what Nigerians are borne of acerbity and cannot discuss or dialogue on this.
If the Lord had not been on our side - let Biafrans say - if the Lord had not been on our side when men attacked us, when their anger flared against us, they would have swallowed us alive; the flood would have engulfed us, the torrent would have swept us away. Praise be to the Lord, who has not let us be torn by their teeth.
It is dangerous to listen to Nigerians who pretend they have little or no knowledge of the constant shedding of Blood against the Biafrans. Nigeria wants Biafrans to stay to avail the continue oppressing and killing of Biafrans who have firmly expressed their resolve to be left alone in August, 2004 sit-at-home.
It is stupid for some nuts to come online and lie. It is rather disingenius of a Nigerian like biafrans7 to speak of his country as if he is a product of one mother with several fathers. The truth of the matter is that nobody is being killed in Nigeria because of their gender or ethnic identification. The fact is that those who call themselves biafrans lack the necessary social skills to share a country with others, they are fraud and lack the means to achieve their dastard aim.
Title: "British Envoy Deplores Use of Firearms On MASSOB Members"
Content: "The High Commissioner (Mr. Richard Grozny) equally used the opportunity to demand that all the personnel found to have actively participated in wasting human lives during the MASSOB protest a fortnight ago should be brought to book, since it is against democratic principles." --- Vanguard. Saturday, December 17, 2005. There's been no justice for those dead since.
The British envoy has nothing to teach us about our dealings with separatists. Well, ok, they may teach us about their tactics in their attempt to suppress the Irish Liberation Army. MASSOB is a criminal organization, a gang of hooligans, never-do-wells and the government must put it down with force. those who are aggrieved, like biafrans7, ought to go to their defense.
The fiction about Nigerian Census is strictly based on the manipulation of distribution of power and resources and maintaining the structures of oppression to which the rest of Nigeria has been subjected by the Hausa/fulani and Yoruba Oligarchy. That is why Obasanjo's regime, propped up by the northern Islamic Sokoto Caliphate and political, military and traditional cabal, rejected the necessary standard demographic indices of ethnicity and religion in the 2006 census parody
please don't talk rubbish bout issues u don't know about. With all the numerous genocides and riots that have rocked the country u can't be serious with that statement. SPEAK THE TRUTH EVEN WHEN IT HURTS.
The civil (Biafran) war was the darkest hours in Nigerian history. The issues surrounding and the animosity gathering steam among our citizenry can no longer be ignored. Our government need to, among other things, encourage open dialogue. Nigerians of all tribes need healing and closure from this unfortunate war.
Ye, it is our history. The war was a blight on our collective psyche and Nigerians must face it and we must talk about it. The problem is that we have not been granted access to the official records and unbiased account of how our war was fought on our behalf. Let the carpet be pulled off, lets talk about the reason why both sides had to be so hateful during the war. What we have on utube from those who call themselves biafrans is not objective
1. Well spoken adunbarin4. Thank God for Ngozi who is smart enough to accept that the civil war and the issue of Biafra is a Nigeria history (Unlike the hard-core 'okoroman' of this world). Now we have an intelligent platform to beginning discussing issues that hopefully will lead to reconciliation on all sides.
Okoroman and his followers are in the wilderness. The bad news is that they are not properly representing the views of all Igbo and they are briging aspersion on the whole Igbo tribe.
The views of Igbo and other Biafrans are clear and has been ever since. They have been oppressed and killed in Nigeria. They opted out of the mess. You can go ahead and stay. It is entirely your choice.
Why don't advise Nigewrian government to conduct a Plebiscite on Biafra. Something in a million years they can never contemplate. They do not see your very existence as anything. Only the resources under your feet.
The good news is that there is nothing under Igbo feet but worthless sand. So now Igbo looks south and wants to fight somebody else's battle with the selfish interest of some sort of compensation. The oil belongs to Nigeria in the first instance, secondly, it is under the feet of the ethnic minorities of the South South.
Those who forsake the law praise the wicked but those who keep the law resist them. Evil men do not understand justice but those who seek The Lord understand it fully. Better a poor man whose walk is blameless than a rich whose ways are perverse.
Stop the lying. You already no enough of what happened. And you took the wrong stand like your father the Devil, who loves oppressing people, lying against them, being jealous of them, stealing from them and killing them. The Word of God stands against you.
"Our history," "our collective psyche." Like we suffered genocide together. Between May, 1966 to May, 1967, a people where unrelentingly hunted down and killed in "one Nigera" before frustration drove the Eastern Nigerian government to declare Biafra. Some people were victims of genocide and lost 1 million people here. Our pain is irrelevant, we get oppression and planned death. God of Israel! God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel! God of Biafra! is surely a witnessed and our Saviour.
A rich man may be wise in his own eyes, but a poor man who has discernment sees through him. When the righteous triumph, there is great elation: but when the wicked rise to power, men go into hiding. Blessed is the man who always fears the Lord.
Story: The census figures, the (Igbo) Leaders of Thought said, "were out of tune with standard demographic tests in the distribution of population according to sex, ecology and other criteria"..... "a political gimmick and not truly a scientific enumeration"...."Refusal of the national Population Commission to include information on ethnicity and religion totally vitiates and voids the entire exercise." ----- Vanguard Friday January 26, 2007.
The power that be? Please, the fault is on both sides of the aisle. Ojukwu and his inner circle have not been forthcoming either. My suspicion is that they all have something sinister to hide. Lets hope that the National Assembly will create platform for these actors to speak before they all die off. They owe us some explanation as to why so many Nigerians (biafra is a misnomer, we are all Nigerians) had to die in order to quel the uprising.
foxychocho, if u have any sense at all u would know that okoroman is the name chosen by a nonetity who has assigned, to himself, the right to speak for the Igbo. Who is the idiot here, u who jumped into discussion blindly and act the fool? Yep, it is u. Go siddon inside gutter
Now the fault is on both sides. Talk of criminal and treacherous stance. Ojukwu and his imaginary and fabricated inner circle has nothing to hide whatsoever. The events were recorded by foreign correspondents. Independent and neutral sources.
I have just placed an order Half of a yellow sun from amazon...it seems REALLY good. I'm a fan of chimamanda already. Purple hibiscus was a legendary book I'm sure this one is as good.
This shld be taught in history classes in Nigerian curriculum . It is a shame that the non igbos of Nigeria want to hide this evil. There shld be a remembrance day for our biafran heroes that died fighting against injustice perpetrates against the IGbos of Nigeria. It is a shame that we claim to be democratic while all pro-biafrans are threatened with death
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ncg89 6 months ago
@ncg89 *bear.
ncg89 6 months ago
just read the purple hibiscus in school, and wow!! It was sooo touching :)
prettylittleroslyn 1 year ago
The novel Yellow in the sun by Chimamand is an inspiration to all Nigerians who believe that there should be unity in diversity.For intance there are people that don't know anything about the war, they only heard a fraction the horrific things that happened to a people then but with her story they will come to understand the nature of equality and good living for all.I hope someone can understand where am coming from,that she reproduced the picture of what happened so that we can learn from it.
komasota1 1 year ago
Comfort women?????
slajaa 1 year ago
You are so right Chimamanda, the wound is even getting deeper with continued evil and hatred of Igbos getting worse than before the war... Nigeria is just a British curse that will remain so until the people wake up and know the truth...!
The lady on glasses was hitting the nail on the head, Nigeria is a heap toxic explosives that will soon explode and consume those evil hostage takers.
RealAFRO 1 year ago
Abeg, the book was interesting. People write about the past and we can learn from our past by acknowledging and written about it instead of sweeping it under the rug.
Chimamanda, I love you. Your books are inspirational.
Funmi, i love you as well. I love your videos but don't be ignorant. You are too smart to be ignorant.
Ifygurl 1 year ago
Why ask her that question. Who knows, maybe Chimamanda was among the small children who were sadly affected by the Biafra War. It's not a long time ago ish. It hasn't even been a decade when the war occurred. It something that affected millions of people, majority that were in nigeria when that war occurred are still alive (my parents for example). Why don't you go and tell those people that it's a long and forgotten war.
Ifygurl 1 year ago
I love my Chima! Love Funmi!!!
chinma85 2 years ago
I have just finished reading "Half of a Yellow Sun". It's a very good book. But now I'm depressed.
bebure 2 years ago
@bebure Why are u depressed?
slajaa 1 year ago
She is great
slajaa 2 years ago
This woman on black is not serious...The African culture of not talking about the past that hurt us is bullshit and that is why we would never move forward. How would people who lost loved ones and lived in total horror for years forget and not talk about it simply beacuse of sentiments? I lost my grandparents and sister in a horrifying way my parents said and it hurts! The june 12 saga is not forgotten by the yorubas and that is how it's meant to be. Talk abt the past even if it hurts!!!!
uriems2020 2 years ago
Half of a Yellow Sun is an excellent book, she writes so well.. I cant wait for her next book.
abso119 2 years ago
omg....i read her boook!! like 4 times!! its good!!
fizzym4c 2 years ago
I've read Half a Yellow Sun last year- it's translated into Serbian, and it was the best book I've read in the last couple of years. Although I'm a history professor this book is also the first detailed account I've read regarding the Biafran War/Nigerian Civil War, considering that one page in the main history book pretty much covered this topic at our universites.
byxl 2 years ago 3
Her works are definitely not an encouragement for splitting Nigeria. Her work illustrates the stupidity, brazenness, callousness and loss of basic human quality that comes with war. only lesson to learn is to say NEVER AGAIN!
mekusbona 3 years ago 7
i want to read the book too. did anybody know where i can get it?
meetashley 3 years ago
where are u?WH smith (uk) markets it.
njidemaduh 2 years ago
lol, i am in Germany. do u know where i can get it?
meetashley 2 years ago
i cnt stand it when pple say "move on" or "get over it, it happened yrs ago". like stfu! go and tell that to the Jews and watch them kiss u 4 it. rubbish!
chickram 3 years ago 2
I 've just read the book. It blew me away. I was right there in the middle of the action. Chimanda, you are a beautiful, wonderfull person. I love you.
nnaamen 3 years ago
I am so proud of Ms Adichie. She has always been like this...smart , cute and on-point. She was my classmate at University of Nigeria pharmacy school. She knows what is at stake like Achebe put it. I just want to tell her congratulations on all her great achievements. She is doing what she knows how best to do.
Kingsley
Baltimore Md, USA
naijaboi77 3 years ago
Chimamanda is a beautiful, intelligent, and wise igbo girl. am proud of her we are igbo before nigeria. people in that fake country were force united nigeria doesn,t exist the sooner we act the better for us.
sassychioma 3 years ago
When a relationship has been tried and found not only impossible but highly costly between parties, the only logical solution to adopt is separation. That separation is what Nigerians are borne of acerbity and cannot discuss or dialogue on this.
Biafrans7 4 years ago
My brother as far as Oil flows in the delta, it may never happen. That is the Issue, if there was no Oil in the south Biafra may well be reality!!!
nachikor 3 years ago
Half of a Yellow Sun is an excellent book from a literary standpoint. Wonderful and poignant story. I'm very proud of Ms. Adichie.
rootzdawta 4 years ago
If the Lord had not been on our side - let Biafrans say - if the Lord had not been on our side when men attacked us, when their anger flared against us, they would have swallowed us alive; the flood would have engulfed us, the torrent would have swept us away. Praise be to the Lord, who has not let us be torn by their teeth.
Biafrans7 4 years ago
It is dangerous to listen to Nigerians who pretend they have little or no knowledge of the constant shedding of Blood against the Biafrans. Nigeria wants Biafrans to stay to avail the continue oppressing and killing of Biafrans who have firmly expressed their resolve to be left alone in August, 2004 sit-at-home.
Biafrans7 4 years ago
It is stupid for some nuts to come online and lie. It is rather disingenius of a Nigerian like biafrans7 to speak of his country as if he is a product of one mother with several fathers. The truth of the matter is that nobody is being killed in Nigeria because of their gender or ethnic identification. The fact is that those who call themselves biafrans lack the necessary social skills to share a country with others, they are fraud and lack the means to achieve their dastard aim.
adunbarin4 4 years ago
Title: "British Envoy Deplores Use of Firearms On MASSOB Members"
Content: "The High Commissioner (Mr. Richard Grozny) equally used the opportunity to demand that all the personnel found to have actively participated in wasting human lives during the MASSOB protest a fortnight ago should be brought to book, since it is against democratic principles." --- Vanguard. Saturday, December 17, 2005. There's been no justice for those dead since.
Biafrans7 4 years ago
The British envoy has nothing to teach us about our dealings with separatists. Well, ok, they may teach us about their tactics in their attempt to suppress the Irish Liberation Army. MASSOB is a criminal organization, a gang of hooligans, never-do-wells and the government must put it down with force. those who are aggrieved, like biafrans7, ought to go to their defense.
adunbarin4 4 years ago
The fiction about Nigerian Census is strictly based on the manipulation of distribution of power and resources and maintaining the structures of oppression to which the rest of Nigeria has been subjected by the Hausa/fulani and Yoruba Oligarchy. That is why Obasanjo's regime, propped up by the northern Islamic Sokoto Caliphate and political, military and traditional cabal, rejected the necessary standard demographic indices of ethnicity and religion in the 2006 census parody
Biafrans7 4 years ago
please don't talk rubbish bout issues u don't know about. With all the numerous genocides and riots that have rocked the country u can't be serious with that statement. SPEAK THE TRUTH EVEN WHEN IT HURTS.
biafra83 3 years ago
u r a dumbass..u need 2 go get urself some unbiased history books and get your facts right.
nwendy88 2 years ago
The civil (Biafran) war was the darkest hours in Nigerian history. The issues surrounding and the animosity gathering steam among our citizenry can no longer be ignored. Our government need to, among other things, encourage open dialogue. Nigerians of all tribes need healing and closure from this unfortunate war.
planetolusola 4 years ago
So long the powers that be still treat Biafra as forgotten issue ,the ghost of Biafra will continue to haunt them.WE WILL NEVER FORGET
ikebobo 4 years ago
Ye, it is our history. The war was a blight on our collective psyche and Nigerians must face it and we must talk about it. The problem is that we have not been granted access to the official records and unbiased account of how our war was fought on our behalf. Let the carpet be pulled off, lets talk about the reason why both sides had to be so hateful during the war. What we have on utube from those who call themselves biafrans is not objective
adunbarin4 4 years ago
1. Well spoken adunbarin4. Thank God for Ngozi who is smart enough to accept that the civil war and the issue of Biafra is a Nigeria history (Unlike the hard-core 'okoroman' of this world). Now we have an intelligent platform to beginning discussing issues that hopefully will lead to reconciliation on all sides.
planetolusola 4 years ago
Okoroman and his followers are in the wilderness. The bad news is that they are not properly representing the views of all Igbo and they are briging aspersion on the whole Igbo tribe.
adunbarin4 4 years ago
The views of Igbo and other Biafrans are clear and has been ever since. They have been oppressed and killed in Nigeria. They opted out of the mess. You can go ahead and stay. It is entirely your choice.
Biafrans7 4 years ago
U can leave, biafrans7, that is ur choice..so go ahead and commot. Igbo will never stop crying.
adunbarin4 4 years ago
Why don't advise Nigewrian government to conduct a Plebiscite on Biafra. Something in a million years they can never contemplate. They do not see your very existence as anything. Only the resources under your feet.
Biafrans7 4 years ago
The good news is that there is nothing under Igbo feet but worthless sand. So now Igbo looks south and wants to fight somebody else's battle with the selfish interest of some sort of compensation. The oil belongs to Nigeria in the first instance, secondly, it is under the feet of the ethnic minorities of the South South.
adunbarin4 4 years ago
Those who forsake the law praise the wicked but those who keep the law resist them. Evil men do not understand justice but those who seek The Lord understand it fully. Better a poor man whose walk is blameless than a rich whose ways are perverse.
Biafrans7 4 years ago
Stop the lying. You already no enough of what happened. And you took the wrong stand like your father the Devil, who loves oppressing people, lying against them, being jealous of them, stealing from them and killing them. The Word of God stands against you.
Biafrans7 4 years ago
biafrans7 still crying....If the word of God is staring u in the face u wont know it, igbo r meat head, dead from the neck up.
adunbarin4 4 years ago
"Our history," "our collective psyche." Like we suffered genocide together. Between May, 1966 to May, 1967, a people where unrelentingly hunted down and killed in "one Nigera" before frustration drove the Eastern Nigerian government to declare Biafra. Some people were victims of genocide and lost 1 million people here. Our pain is irrelevant, we get oppression and planned death. God of Israel! God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel! God of Biafra! is surely a witnessed and our Saviour.
Biafrans7 4 years ago
A rich man may be wise in his own eyes, but a poor man who has discernment sees through him. When the righteous triumph, there is great elation: but when the wicked rise to power, men go into hiding. Blessed is the man who always fears the Lord.
Biafrans7 4 years ago
Headline: Igbo Reject Census Results
Story: The census figures, the (Igbo) Leaders of Thought said, "were out of tune with standard demographic tests in the distribution of population according to sex, ecology and other criteria"..... "a political gimmick and not truly a scientific enumeration"...."Refusal of the national Population Commission to include information on ethnicity and religion totally vitiates and voids the entire exercise." ----- Vanguard Friday January 26, 2007.
Biafrans7 4 years ago
The power that be? Please, the fault is on both sides of the aisle. Ojukwu and his inner circle have not been forthcoming either. My suspicion is that they all have something sinister to hide. Lets hope that the National Assembly will create platform for these actors to speak before they all die off. They owe us some explanation as to why so many Nigerians (biafra is a misnomer, we are all Nigerians) had to die in order to quel the uprising.
adunbarin4 4 years ago
Idiot, the correect term is Igbo, and not okoroman. Anuohia!!
foxychocho 4 years ago
foxychocho, if u have any sense at all u would know that okoroman is the name chosen by a nonetity who has assigned, to himself, the right to speak for the Igbo. Who is the idiot here, u who jumped into discussion blindly and act the fool? Yep, it is u. Go siddon inside gutter
adunbarin4 4 years ago
Now the fault is on both sides. Talk of criminal and treacherous stance. Ojukwu and his imaginary and fabricated inner circle has nothing to hide whatsoever. The events were recorded by foreign correspondents. Independent and neutral sources.
Biafrans7 4 years ago
I have just placed an order Half of a yellow sun from amazon...it seems REALLY good. I'm a fan of chimamanda already. Purple hibiscus was a legendary book I'm sure this one is as good.
nutrii 4 years ago
I need to read her book!
summersunt 4 years ago