Ethnic Dissonance and the Futility of Nationalism in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun and James Ile’s Verses of Uncharted Heaven: The Second Coming of Biafra
The plurality of ethno-cultural nationalities constitutes an indelible architectural and ontological feature of modern postcolonial African states. Rarely does an African state exhibit organic ethno-linguistic homogeneity; instead, the arbitrary cartographic demarcations orchestrated during the 1884–1885 Berlin Confere...