Amna Ali’s Reviews > Half of a Yellow Sun > Status Update

“half of a yellow sun gleaming on their sleeves.”

“You insult me, Odenigbo.”
“The truth has become an insult.”

“At Independence in 1960, Nigeria was a collection of fragments held in a fragile clasp.”

“The South, too eager for independence, accepted this constitution. With the British gone, there would be good things for everyone: “white” salaries long denied Nigerians, promotions, top jobs. Nothing was done about the clamor of the minority groups, and the regions were already competing so fiercely that some wanted separate foreign embassies.”

“He’s one of these village houseboys,” one of the men said dismissively, and Ugwu looked at the man’s face and murmured a curse about acute diarrhea following him and all of his offspring for life.”

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My grandfathers, whom I never knew,
Nwoye David Adichie and Aro-Nweke Felix Odigwe,
did not survive the war.

My grandmothers, Nwabuodu Regina Odigwe and
Nwamgbafor Agnes Adichie, remarkable women
both, did.

This book is dedicated to their memories:
ka fa nodu na ndokwa.

How am I already crying at the acknowledgements