For Love of Biafra

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

For Love of Biafra is the moving drama of a young woman’s love for an idealized country and her love for a man from a rival ethnic group. Set in the war-torn, short-lived Republic of Biafra, it chronicles the experience of an average, middle-class extended family during the Nigerian Civil war.

The play is an inspiring work written from a Biafran perspective whose simple and poignant story Is a celebration of patriotism, fervor, faith and love unquenched even by defeat.

112 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1998

About the author

CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into more than fifty-five languages. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize; Half of a Yellow Sun, which was the recipient of the Women’s Prize for Fiction “Best of the Best” award; Americanah, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck and the essays We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions. Her most recent work is an essay about losing her father, Notes on Grief, and Mama’s Sleeping Scarf, a children’s book written as Nwa Grace-James. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.