One can read this as a historical novel. Destination Biafra is frank, hard-hitting and much needed.
Destination Biafra is frank, hard-hitting and much needed.
With Buchi Emecheta’s Destination Biafra as its navigational compass, this paper examines the impact of war as a multi-dimensional tragedy. Helpful.
Not only men were involved in it, children, women and men were.
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Well over 30 years on, I re-read it and thoroughly enjoyed it. Emecheta's novel covers the events in an historically accurate way, showing important people through the lives of ordinary Nigerians.
Biafra was formally recognised by Gabon, Haiti, Ivory Coast, Tanzania, and Zambia. Destination Biafra is a bold and daring departure from the normal domestic preserve of most fictional works of African woman writers.
SYNOPSIS. Unnithan, A.K., Jayaraman, H. “The New African Woman”: A Study on Buchi Emecheta’s Destination Biafra as a Personal War for Womanhood.
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This hard-hitting, fast-moving novel charts the painful birth of the Biafran republic in the late 1960s, and centers around Debbie Ogedembge, the Oxford educated daughter of a corrupt Nigerian government minister. But this one's good for other reasons--it has more about how outside nations influenced (and continue to influence) what happens in Nigeria, more about the politics.
Your Web browser is not enabled for JavaScript. Her themes of child slavery, motherhood, female independence and freedom through education have won her considerable critical acclaim and honours, including an Order of the British Empire in 2005. Read more. Destination Biafra falls under the category of war novels that were published in the wake of the momentous experience in African consciousness. Its great for young people.
Its great for young people .
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Unnithan, A.K., Jayaraman, H. “The New African Woman”: A Study on Buchi Emecheta’s Destination Biafra as a Personal War for Womanhood.
Destination Biafra (African Writers Series) This is a must read for all who seek to get the full perspective of what happened during the Biafra War (along with all the other books on the war. Justin A. Reynolds Shares the Black Teen Stories That Give Him 'All the Feels'This hard-hitting, fast-moving novel charts the painful birth of the Biafran republic in the late 1960s, and centers around Debbie Ogedembge, the Oxford educated daughter of a corrupt Nigerian government minister.
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s.l., 2005. And Emecheta finally gave a female perspective. This one was just different.
The Federal High Court, Abuja has fixed 25 February 2019 for hearing the suit.The Republic of Biafra comprised over 29,848 square miles (77,310 km"Southern Cameroun joins IPOB in Biafra struggle""Court fixes February to hear suit seeking Biafra republic""Hypertension, diabetes and overweight: Looming legacies of the Biafran famine"Ethnic tension had simmered in Nigeria during discussions of independence, but in the mid-twentieth century, ethnic and religious riots began to occur.
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Emecheta once described her stories as "stories of the world…[where]… women face the universal problems of poverty and oppression, and the longer they stay, no matter where they have come from originally, the more the problems become identical." Please enter the subject.http:\/\/worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/id\/2946110340> ;Would you also like to submit a review for this item?The name field is required.
Some of the themes of postcolonial nation state formation are explored well, others less so. There Was a Country: A Memoir
Florence Onyebuchi "Buchi" Emecheta OBE (21 July 1944 – 25 January 2017) was a Nigerian-born novelist, based in the UK from 1962, who also wrote plays and an autobiography, as well as works for children.She was the author of more than 20 books, including Second Class Citizen (1974), The Bride Price (1976), The Slave Girl (1977) and The Joys of Motherhood (1979). Error rating book.