Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

This is a 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.

This book contains sexual activities including sexual assault; sexual nudity; profanity and derogatory terms; violence; and controversial and inflammatory racial commentary