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There Was a Country

by Chinua Achebe

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Achebe's personal history of Nigeria and the Biafran war.

NigerianMemoirNon-fictionWarPolitics

  • First published 2012
  • Length Medium
  • Language English

In lists: Books on the Biafran war

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