Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A map of northern and southern Nigera from the UN.
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Language Could Kill You: Adichie, Code-Switching & the Biafran War

  Language plays a crucial role throughout Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novels, but nowhere is it more decisive than in the author’s second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun. Written against the backdrop of the Biafran War, two wealthy sisters return from England to a nation on the cusp of revolution and choose two different paths:…