{"id":907,"date":"2021-06-04T12:24:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T11:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ivavalleybooks.com\/new\/?p=907"},"modified":"2021-06-04T12:24:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T11:24:31","slug":"there-was-a-country-chinua-achebe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ivavalleybooks.com\/new\/2021\/06\/04\/there-was-a-country-chinua-achebe\/","title":{"rendered":"THERE WAS A COUNTRY &#8211; Chinua Achebe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra &#8211; Chinua Achebe <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For more than forty years, Chinua Achebe has maintained a considered silence on the events of the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War, of 1967-1970, addressing them only obliquely through his poetry. Now, decades in the making, comes a towering account of one of modern Africa\u2019s most disastrous events, from a writer whose words and courage have left an enduring stamp on world literature. A marriage of history and memoir, vivid first-hand observation and decades of research and reflection, <em>There Was a Country<\/em> is a work whose wisdom and compassion remind us of Chinua Achebe\u2019s place as one of the great literary and moral voices of our age.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ivavalleybooks.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/chinua-achebe-there-was-a-country-.pdf\">chinua-achebe -there was a country<\/a> Download here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There Was a Country is a work whose wisdom and compassion remind us of Chinua Achebe\u2019s place as one of the great literary and moral voices of our age<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivavalleybooks.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivavalleybooks.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivavalleybooks.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivavalleybooks.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivavalleybooks.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ivavalleybooks.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":910,"href":"https:\/\/ivavalleybooks.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions\/910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivavalleybooks.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivavalleybooks.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivavalleybooks.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivavalleybooks.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}