There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra

From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart comes a longawaited memoir about coming of age with a fragile new nation, then watching it torn asunder in a tragic civil war

The defining experience of C…

If you like book There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra here is the list of books you may also like

Buy this book on Amazon

Similar books (20)

Dream Count

A publishing event ten years in the making—a searing, exquisite new novel by the best-selling and award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists—the story of four women and their lo…
Buy this book on Amazon
Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow

Humor and poignance mix in this powerful polyphonic novel about family secrets, judgmental aunties, and Brazilian butt lifts, from the internationally bestselling author of Nearly All the Men in Lagos…
Buy this book on Amazon
Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right

Ogadinma Or, Everything Will be All Right tells the story of the naïve and trusting teenager Ogadinma as she battles against Nigeria's societal expectations in the 1980s. After a rape and unwanted pre…
Buy this book on Amazon
Half of a Yellow Sun

A masterly, haunting new novel from a writer heralded by The Washington Post Book World as “the 21st-century daughter of Chinua Achebe,” Half of a Yellow Sun re-creates a seminal moment in modern Afri…
Buy this book on Amazon
Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

A collection of short stories, structured as case-studies, and a form of love letter in solidarity with the women who have survived romantic relationships with men in Lagos….it deftly analyses the var…
Buy this book on Amazon
Under the Udala Trees

Inspired by Nigeria's folktales and its war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly.

Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does; born befo…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Parlour Wife

Kehinde must put everything on the line to find herself during a time of war.

Lagos, 1939

With the announcement of World War Two and a change that sends shockwaves through her family, Kehinde is forced …
Buy this book on Amazon
A Broken People's Playlist

A Broken People’s Playlist is a collection of short stories with underlying themes so beautifully woven that each story flows into the other seamlessly. From its poignant beginning in “Lost Stars” a s…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World

From one of the world’s most prominent thinkers comes an urgent warning of the threat that US power poses to humanity’s future

The land of the free. The home of the brave. But what has America achieved…
Buy this book on Amazon
Purple Hibiscus

Buy this book on Amazon
The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing

A conversation starter like Three Women but centering the experiences of women of color: a mellifluous chorus celebrating the liberation, individuality, and joy of African women's multifaceted sexuali…
Buy this book on Amazon
I Do Not Come to You by Chance

A deeply moving debut novel set amid the perilous world of Nigerian email scams, I Do Not Come to You by Chance tells the story of one young man and the family who loves him.

Being the opara of the fa…
Buy this book on Amazon
Zikora

The emotional storms weathered by a mother and daughter yield a profound new understanding in a moving short story by the bestselling, award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists…
Buy this book on Amazon
Ghostroots: Stories

A debut collection of stories set in a hauntingly reimagined Lagos where characters vie for freedom from ancestral ties.

’Pemi Aguda opens her collection of twelve stories with the chilling tale of a w…
Buy this book on Amazon
Vagabonds!

Buy this book on Amazon
A Grain of Wheat

Set in the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion and on the cusp of Kenya's independence from Britain, A Grain of Wheat follows a group of villagers whose lives have been transformed by the 1952–1960 Emergenc…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Palm-Wine Drinkard

Buy this book on Amazon
An Orchestra of Minorities

Buy this book on Amazon
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives

African-born poet Lola Shoneyin makes her fiction debut with The Secret Lives of Babi Segi’s Wives, a perceptive, entertaining, and eye-opening novel of polygamy in modern-day Nigeria. The struggles, …
Buy this book on Amazon
The Visit

Buy this book on Amazon