Litsy

There Was a Country: A Memoir | Chinua Achebe

At the end of the thirty-month war Biafra was a vast smoldering rubble. The head count at the end of the war was perhaps three million dead, which was approximately 20 percent of the entire population.

Chinua Achebe, There Was A Country

#memoir #Nigeria #war #history

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fictionaddictbooks

There Was a Country: A Memoir | Chinua Achebe

I've wanted to read There Was A Country for the longest of times but I'm really glad to be reading it now. From what I've read so far it looks like not much has changed since the last 60 years particularly with respect to our politics. 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬

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GatheringBooks

The African Trilogy: Things Fall Apart ; No Longer at Ease , [and] Arrow of God | Chinua Achebe

#MayMoms Day 25: It is #Embarrassing that I have yet to read a Chinua Achebe book. I hope to get to this trilogy this year for our #DecolonizeBookshelves2022 reading theme.

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs 🤎📚🧡 2y

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Theexplorer

The African Trilogy: Things Fall Apart ; No Longer at Ease , [and] Arrow of God | Chinua Achebe

It took me a while but I finally finished Girl, Woman, Other. Now I‘m on to this trilogy. It‘s a shame I haven‘t read this collection until now but better late than never 😃.

Nute I haven‘t read this entire trilogy, but I gained some insightful information from Things Fall Apart. 4y

Theexplorer 😀🤗 Things Fall Apart is pretty good. 3y

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Cosmos_Moon_River

Girls at War | Chinua Achebe

🍁getting trainings completed at work and time with my family every night.
🍁very sad short stories about tumultuous societies.

#wondrouswednesday
@Eggs

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Traci1, MySharonaK, Powered_By_Plants

MySharonaK Thank you 😘💕 4y

Eggs Nicely done ✅ 4y

Cosmos_Moon_River @MySharonaK anytime 🥰 4y

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Cosmos_Moon_River @eggs thank you ☺️ 4y

Powered_By_Plants Congratulations on finishing your training and Thank you for the tag 💜 definitely grateful fir family dinners every night sitting down together and chatting about our days 🥰 4y

Cosmos_Moon_River @Powered_By_Plants for sure! I make our family dinners a priority. No TV at dinner and we have to sit down together. We‘re all at work and school all day and need that time to decompress as a family, together. Unfortunately my kids are at the age of arguing with them to eat everything, unless it‘s Mac n cheese or pizza, so not always relaxing, but we‘re getting there 🥰 4y

Powered_By_Plants @Cosmos_Moon oh I feel your pain!! My oldest isn‘t too bad my little one does like to put up a fight. I‘m not into cooking everyone a separate dinner so it‘s that or nothing , but it‘s so true about introducing them to a certain food many times before they eat it. after about the 10th time she will now eat a bean chilli with no fuss 😅 x 4y

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Cosmos_Moon_River

Girls at War and Other Stories | Chinua Achebe

1. No going to the usual Halloween parties, and altered trick or treating with the kids.
1. An old friend from grad school moved back to town and will see her this weekend.

#ThankfulThursday
@MissinginAction @MariaW @NeedsMoreBooks

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