The film is interspersed with archival stock footage of television news broadcasts of political events in Nigeria.Īfter completing their university education in the United Kingdom and United States, twin sisters Olanna ( Thandiwe Newton) and Kainene ( Anika Noni Rose) return to Nigeria. Half of a Yellow Sun begins during the first Nigerian Independence Day on 1 October 1960 and concludes at the end of the Nigerian Civil War in 1970. It received mixed reception from critics. The film premiered in the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. It stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandiwe Newton, Onyeka Onwenu, Anika Noni Rose, Joseph Mawle, Genevieve Nnaji, OC Ukeje and John Boyega and was filmed on location in Nigeria.
The film is historical fiction that follows two sisters who are caught up in the outbreak of the Nigerian Civil War. “When she turned 10 and read Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, about the clash between Igbo tradition and the British colonial way of life, everything changed: ‘I realized that people who looked like me could live in books.’ She has been writing about Africa ever since.Half of a Yellow Sun is a 2013 Anglo-Nigerian drama film directed by Biyi Bandele and based on the novel of the same name by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. What he said about her rings true: “We do not usually associate wisdom with beginners, but here is a new writer endowed with the gift of ancient storytellers.” In this and in her other works, she seeks to instill dignity into the finest details of each character, whether poor, middle class or rich, exposing along the way the deep scars of colonialism in the African landscape.Īdichie's newest book, The Thing Around Your Neck, is a brilliant collection of stories about Nigerians struggling to cope with a corrupted context in their home country, and about the Nigerian immigrant experience.Īdichie builds on the literary tradition of Igbo literary giant Chinua Achebe-and when she found out that Achebe liked Half of a Yellow Sun, she says she cried for a whole day. In Nigeria, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novel Half of a Yellow Sun has helped inspire new, cross-generational communication about the Biafran war.
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