Whose Biafra?

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) could be described as a battlefield of the ethics of resistance. It agonizes over the dilemma of a just cause but unjust means, it struggles with the necessity of reconciliation, it lashes out against the West’s (mis)uses of the images of the war, and at the end it expands the battle to include a discussion about who has the right to write the history of the war. Struggle, armed and unarmed, is its central theme.