corpersforum:
Your review is a good one. I will advice you to start a website solely based on *Reviews*
It will be big if you keep at it.
Just reviewing anything reviewable..... am serious o

Talk2Bella:
Please don't remind me that Kainene is still missing biko

homesteady:


I read that book like close to 4 years back, and I still feel pain whenever I remember Kainene

willibounce1:


Rules governing war? My dear stop deceiving yourself. That's what they tell you. But when the war starts, Nobody gives two phucks about civilians. When they throw bombs, they don't care if it hits civilians or military men. If a war breaks out in Nigeria today, it will be gruesome. It will be a war of hatred and bitterness. There will be nothing like civilians, children or babies. When you go to war the aim is to destroy your enemy totally. Destroy them so much that they'll never in their life time think of confronting you anymore that's if you spare any of them. Even the press/camera men who cover wars are not safe.

MDCCCXXXII:
Informed by whom? Someone who didn't know the nitty gritty of the war.

If you want to really know about the war, happenings and doings, read Why We Struck by Adewale Ademoyega. He's among the coup plotters.

It is always wonderful to read/hear from the source, don't you think so?

padiga047:
there is so much hate in this your statement.

It doesn't deserve a reply.

Stevenbright:
Half Of A Yellow Sun is a nice read any time! You can even use the book to master the art of controlling your emotions.

olab059:


I have read many many stories like this here on Nairaland, and I know some are exaggerated stories. I know we are supposed to learn from our pasts, but how do we move forward when people tell their children stories to make them hate and never to trust a certain people cos of what was done to them by those people's forefathers like half a century ago? How are we to love when we preach hate. The cycle will only continue.

GodnGold:
How so?
I mean...controlling one's emotions.

slap1:


I honestly do not think he should start a website to review books.

1Rebel:


Relative peace?

padiga047:
How about reading General Alexander Madiebo's' The Nigerian revolution and the Biafra war' at least he was the second in command to Ojukwu and nearer to the victims of the genocide.

How about watching the British documentary on the biafra war, and watch how nearly 3million people died out of starvation and sheer brutality.

No, you went to read an apologist' s rendition of how they went on a killing rampage. Mind you, I have read that book too, and if that is your only authority on the civil war, then you are not fit to talk about the civil war.

You have known very little or nothing about it.

MarieSucre:


I'm sorry if I overshot the gun. There is still a lot of scars in the East. I hope every region of the nation achieves their full desires and goals soon.

sisisioge:


Thanks for the review, I think I will pick a copy soon. Just like you, I'm usually unhappy with gloomy stories. That's why I have refused to read or watch the movie...I'm too lilly livered to watch so much sorrows.

DarryOsh:


illogically pretty

MDCCCXXXII:
I have read Dennis Madiebo's book. Including Fredrick Forsethe's Making Of An African Legend, Including Obasanjo's 'Nzeogwu', along with Wole Soyinka's The Man Died, with Achebe's There Was A country. So I know what I'm saying.

So tell me, who would you believe, the and who planned and orchestrated the coup and fought in the Biafra war, or the man who only fought in the Biafra war?

I'm sure you know Adewale Ademoyega took a very lucid shot at Dennis Madiebo? If you truly read that book, you won't be spewing all what you spewed here.

padiga047:
Gentleman, we are talking about what happened during the Nigerian-biafran war, the atrocities committed therein, we are not talking about the coup. Adewale gave an account of the coup and very little about the war. (the veracity of which would be a subject for another day) Alexander Madiebo gave a full account of the happenings during the Biafra war.

Adewale was a mere soldier in the Nigerian army.

Madiebo was a commander of the Biafra army.

Who do you think would give a more better account of the suffering of the biafran people?

Wtf do you mean by Adewale took a lucid shot at Madiebo, how does it come as a basis for our argument.

MDCCCXXXII:
Really. I'm now sure you didn't read the book cos from what I read, he gave lucid details about what transpired before, during and after the war.

He was a major! Not a mere soldier. He was among the few who mustered the balls to do what needed to be done in a country heading towards disaster!.

Indeed he was. He was also among the problem of the country. Never forget, Adewale also fought as a commander in the Biafra army, along with Nzeogwu. So?

Who's talking about the Biafra people here? Are the so called Biafra people the only ones who suffered during the civil war?

It come as a basis for argument cos Madiebo like Ojukwo was paranoid. Isn't that why he (Ojukwu) ordered the execution of Ifeajuna cos he was afraid of another coup to oust him.

olab059:


I have read many many stories like this here on Nairaland, and I know some are exaggerated stories. I know we are supposed to learn from our pasts, but how do we move forward when people tell their children stories to make them hate and never to trust a certain people cos of what was done to them by those people's forefathers like half a century ago? How are we to love when we preach hate. The cycle will only continue.

Effiezynews:


If you read the epilogue or should I say ,front page rather..You would see where she wrote "To Mellitus,wherever you may be"-This means her family lost someone close and they never recovered from it, because they don't know where he is till date..What she wrote is plain reality,as heartbreaking as it may seem.

Mellitus was their houseboy in real life,whom Adichie's mother adored( portrayed as Ugwu in the book)

willibounce1:


Where you there to witness the war? So if someone says the different stories are being exaggerated, why should you doubt. Your forefathers could have exaggerated to get sympathy and probably foster hate towards others. Whatever the case may be, the war shouldn't have happened in the first place. War is not nollywood movie where you expect both waring sides to be fair to the other. Indeed we all need to SAY NO TO WAR because when it happens, there is always no mercy.

Benitomorgan:
As an Igbo myself,am always emotionally lost whenever am reading that book. So do not keep reminding us of worst nightmare

Benitomorgan:
As an Igbo myself,am always emotionally lost whenever am reading that book. So do not keep reminding us of worst nightmare

Ralphlauren:
Change your heading.

It's "too" and not "to".

Besides, this book is rather old. Are you just reading it or are you trying to start another tribal thread that would lead to another e-war between their biafrians and the other enlightened tribes in nigeria

Ralphlauren:
Change your heading.

It's "too" and not "to".

Besides, this book is rather old. Are you just reading it or are you trying to start another tribal thread that would lead to another e-war between their biafrians and the other enlightened tribes in nigeria