Nevertheless, I cannot deny that the general neglect of African history during my first two years has only made me hungrier for history pertaining to Nigeria.

Through a series of diary entries and letters these two young women attempt to come to grips with the massacre and fulfil their desire of publicising its existence in opposition to this censorship. There is an instance where Onome gives way too much credit to the British by writing to Chioma that she must be mistaken about her account of the massacre, or the British are censoring the news (come on now). I am thrilled to have been selected to do an exchange year at McGill University as part of The University of Edinburgh's study abroad programme. It was extremely hard to put this book down and 10x harder to not think about the story and its characters throughout the day. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.It is one of the more interesting words in the English language, in that its connotative meaning can be either very negative or very positive.

Today, we celebrate them and the role women leaders play in enriching our communities around the world.

Overall, this is a great book to educate yourself on the Nigerian Civil War and understand the effects that it has on individual people.