There Was a Country

There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra is a personal account of the Nigerian civil war [1](1967–1970), also known as the Biafran War by the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe.[2][3] There Was a Country is considered one of the defining works of modern African non-fiction.[2][4]

First UK edition (publ. Allen Lane)

The work got the author reviews from great persons; one of whom is the former president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela who said "The writer in whose company the prison walls fell down."[1]


References
  1. Achebe, Chinua (2012). There was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra. Penguin. ISBN 978-1-59420-482-1.
  2. "There Was a Country Summary | SuperSummary". SuperSummary. Retrieved 2018-09-25.
  3. Cartwright, Justin (2013-08-04). "There Was a Country by Chinua Achebe – review". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-09-25.
  4. "There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra by Chinua Achebe". World Literature Today. 2013-02-20. Retrieved 2020-05-27.
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