There Was a Country Format:Paperback to reclaim all that’s mine

to reclaim all that’s mine

possibly sociopathic

But at what cost to herself

and living in a sentient house with whims of its own

unlike the Vampyre Council

There Was a Country Format:Paperback to reclaim all that’s mineFrom the legendary author of Things Fall Aparta long awaited memoir of coming of age in a fragile new nation, and its destruction in a tragic civil war For more than forty years, Chinua Achebe maintained a considered silence on the events of the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War, of 19671970, addressing them only obliquely through his poetry. Decades in the making, There Was a Country is a towering account of one of modern Africas most