Never Again

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In Never Again, Flora Nwapa tells the story of war from her own hometown Oguta. The story is a first person novella set during the turmoil of Nigeria's biafran war in 1967. The narrator and main protagonist, Kate, is a middle class igbo woman married with 5 children. She recounts us a day to day con......more

This book is unique amongst the fictional depictions of civilian life during the Biafran war because of the way it approaches propaganda and discourse among ordinary Biafrans. The narrative around self-policing, group think, effects of class differences on individual experiences, and the general cha......more

Short, spare, and unsentimental. Nwapa depicts a few days in the life of a family on the Biafran side of the Nigerian civil war. They flee one city under attack; those in the city tell them that fleeing makes them saboteurs, while the people in the town they flee to insist that there never was any a......more

This book was listed as source material for Adichie's Half a Yellow Sun. As I am still woefully undereducated about the Nigerian civil way (Biafran war), I wanted to learn more. This is a poignant, fictional, first-hand account of the war. Captivating and well-written.......more