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|pages=448
|publisher=HarperPerennial
|date=January 2007
|isbn=978-0007200283
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'''A ''Times Educational Supplement'' Teachers' Top 100 Book'''
''Half of a Yellow Sun'' is the story of the years leading up to and the course of the Nigeria-Biafra war of the late 1960s. Following a failed coup, Nigeria's Igbo population, centred in the east of the country, seceded to form a proto-independent state called Biafra. During the war for secession Britain and the Soviet Union provided considerable military assistance to Nigeria and in the ensuing conflict, hundreds of thousands of people lost their lives in fighting, under bombs and to starvation.
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|name=Colin Cameron
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|comment=Magnificent and truly moving, certainly worth a second read. As good as ''The Poisonwood Bible'', and all the better for coming from an African voice.
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