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If one prods the origins of most great works of art, one will find they were created to exorcise or archive a memory. Okigbo does the latter for Kepkanly, a school teacher. Adichie, it can be argued, wrote Half of a Yellow Sun (at least in part) to re-exorcise the collective tribal memory of the ...

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