Half of a Yellow Sun

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's powerful novel dramatised by Janice Okoh.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's powerful, heart-breaking novel dramatised by Janice Okoh.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's remarkable novel set during the Nigeria-Biafra War of the late 1960s, dramatised by Janice Okoh.

Sisters Olanna and Kainene, daughters of a "nouveau riche" tribal chief turned businessman and part of the Igbo elite; Olanna's lover Odenigbo, a revolutionary university professor; Richard, a British writer in love with Kainene; and Ugwu a young man employed as a houseboy for Odenigbo all have their lives drastically changed as they become swept up in the brutal civil war. 

A powerful, compassionate depiction of the human tragedy of those caught up in Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic and the chilling violence and trauma that followed.
 

NARRATOR.....Ben Onwukwe
OKEOMA.....Sule Rimi
ODENIGBO.....Adetomiwa Edun
UGWU.....Valentine Olukoga
MISS ADEBAYO/ MAMA/ AMALA.....Gbemisola Ikumelo
OLANNA.....Susan Wokoma
RICHARD.....Blake Ritson
KAINENE.....Nikki Amuka-Bird
MADU.....Okezie Morro

Directed by Nadia Molinari
Sound Design by Sharon Hughes

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's remarkable novel set during the Nigeria-Biafra War of the late 1960s, dramatised by Janice Okoh.

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