LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 13:12 December 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

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Biafra – The War, Its Civilians and Their Relationships
A Study on Cimmananda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of A Yellow Sun

Cavya Deekshith M., M.Phil. English Literature

Abstract

Adichie’s novel Half of a Yellow Sun effectively portrays the crude realities of the Biafra war during 1967 to 1970. The war lasted for three full years among the tribes of Igbo from South East, Hausa – Fulani from North and Yoruba from South West, with different cultural and political structures.

Key Words:Biafra war, Relationships, Education, Igbo culture and language

Biafra War

The Republic of Biafra was born in May 1967 after the Nigerian Biafra war. Nigeria got independence from British in 1960 but it did not get Nigerian recognition which led to the cold civil war of ethnic tension. The tribe’s identity is spoken thus by Odenigbo:

‘… my point is that the only authentic identity for the African is tribe. I am Nigerian because a white man created Nigeria and gave me that identity. I am black because the white man constructed black…I was Igbo before the white man came.’ (20)

Focus on the Bloody War and Its Effect on Personal Relations

The major group affected is the middle class from Biafra. The novel Half of a Yellow Sun, brings out the bloodiness of war through five major characters. Their loyalties among their relationships are also severely tested during the war. Both the physical and mental trauma get narrated aesthetically through multiple narrations which in turn aid to the authenticity of experience, as the characters narrate the events though from third person’s view, audience get the feel of plot and move along with it.

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Cavya Deekshith M., M.Phil. English Literature
Faculty of English and Foreign Languages
Gandhigram Rural Institute - Deemed University
Dindigul
Tamil Nadu
India
cavyaarjun@gmail.com
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