There Was a Country
There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra is a personal account of the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War by the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe. There Was a Country is considered one of the defining works of modern African non-fiction.
The work got the author reviews from great persons; one of whom is the former president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela who said "The writer in whose company the prison walls fell down."
