Summary The Lion and the Jewel is a comedic play set in the Yoruba village of Ilujinle, centered on the rivalry between two men for the hand of a beautiful …

Summary Half of a Yellow Sun is a narrative that follows the lives of five major characters before and during the Nigerian Civil War in the 1960s. The story centers …

Summary There Was a Country is a personal memoir and historical account that chronicles the birth, struggle, and eventual collapse of the short-lived Republic of Biafra. Achebe integrates his own …

Ayi Kwei Armah’s novel, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, provides a searing critique of post-independence Ghana, focusing on the pervasive nature of corruption and the struggle of an …

Summary The Nigerian Revolution (1966): The book begins by detailing the political and military instability of the Federation of Nigeria, rooted in an artificial amalgamation in 1914 and a “Divide …

SUMMARY Ifemelu, a Nigerian woman living in America, gets her hair braided at an African salon. She interacts with the women there and remembers her past. Meanwhile Obinze, a rich …

Summary The novel tells us about the Nigeria and the Biafra war. It tells us how they fought the war and how Nigeria captured Biafra and how Biafra surrendered to …

BRIEF SUMMARY This is a novel about disillusionment about the loss of the ideal of independence and the destruction of hope; about the triumph of corruption over humanity, so incendiary …

Unlike other parts of Nigeria where the British met little or no restriction, the south, especially the Igbo towns, mounted strong oppositions against moves that threatened their sovereignty. Ekumeku, according …