ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on Half of a Yellow Sun delving into self-annihilating non-forgiveness. C. N. Adichie explores private enclaves and personal narratives that memorialise the 1960s Biafran-Nigerian civil war – its sacrifices, losses, pains, hurt, disillusionment, and dehumanising effects. Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun provide a historiography that subtly theorises the bedrock of conflict at individual, family, community, and national levels in Nigeria's post-independence. Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun expose the “greedy little caste” – intellectuals, political elites, leading business and religious leaders, as well as other community leaders – grappling and striving to attain the best in life, play out the drama in Adichie's exploration. The beauty of forgiveness emanates from intrinsic loyalty and commitment to the fire of transformative change that is embedded in reciprocal relationships – No victor and no vanquished.
