Rather than the projected unity everyone believed, there was a lack of identity among the people and the leaders themselves.

‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ showed that Nigeria never had an identity after gaining independence. However, the book exploited a weakness in the country and showed how that weakness divided the people that weakness was identity. As a new country with great potential, prosperity rocked the nation and people in its early years. ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’shows an image of what Nigeria was before the civil war. The Identity of Nigeria Post Colonial Era ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ explored many hidden aspects of the civil war as the book made its characters‘ lives an open book. The political instability of Nigeria set the stage for disaster, and ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ portrayed how the political tension led to a war that claimed many lives. The coup fueled intense hatred for the easterners, and after it failed, there was a massacre, which led to the death of thousands of Igbos. The political tension resulted in a coup, which everyone soon believed to be the work of the easterners. The north and east had separate political agendas, which created more hatred between them. At the beginning of the novel, there was disunity between the northern and eastern people of the country. The civil war of Nigeria lasted for three years and claimed the lives of millions of people. The story of ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ shows how the marginalization of Nigeria led to the civil war. The novel also described the role of the western world in shaping the outcome of the historical Biafran war. Urn:oclc:861954148 Republisher_date 20170705084107 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 1557 Scandate 20170704152441 Scanner .‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ centers on themes related to war, politics, and how the conflict in African countries affected their overall development. OL8364510M Openlibrary_subject openlibrary_staff_picks Openlibrary_work Urn:lcp:halfofyellowsun00chim:epub:57bc2425-74b3-44b2-a9e7-ac16136df9fd Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier halfofyellowsun00chim Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t55f2vb18 Invoice 1213 Isbn 9781400095209Ģ005057784 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Openlibrary OL8364510M Openlibrary_edition

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