There Was a Country
A Memoir
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 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. Decades in the making, There Was a Country is a towering account of one of modern Africa’s most disastrous events, from a writer whose words and courage 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…
Chinua Achebe was born in Nigeria in 1930. His first novel, Things Falls Apart, became a classic of international literature and required reading for students worldwide. He also authored four subsequent novels, two short-story collections, and numerous other books. He was the David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University and, for more than 15 years, was the Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College. In 2007, Achebe was awarded the Man Booker International Prize for lifetime achievement. He died in 2013.
Devil on the Cross
Ngugi wa Thiong'o; Introduction by Namwali Serpell
The River Between
Ngugi wa Thiong'o; Introduction by Uzodinma Iweala
There Was a Country
Chinua Achebe
A Grain of Wheat
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Weep Not, Child
Ngugi wa Thiong'o; Introduction by Ben Okri; Series Editor: Chinua Achebe
Chike and the River
Chinua Achebe; Illustrated by Edel Rodriguez
The Education of a British-Protected Child
Chinua Achebe
Great Ideas V an Image of Africa
Chinua Achebe
Arrow of God
Chinua Achebe
A Man of the People
Chinua Achebe
Girls at War and Other Stories
Chinua Achebe
No Longer at Ease
Chinua Achebe
Anthills of the Savannah
Chinua Achebe