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Chapter 26
The war rages on, and the school in Nsukka is converted to a refugee camp. Ugwu becomes enamored with a girl who lives nearby called Eberechi.
Because the school no longer operates, Olanna, Mrs. Muokelu, and Ugwu start a school in Olanna and Odenigbo’s compound.
Baby is in the youngest class in that makeshift school, and Ugwu is her teacher.
Eberechi seems to have a lover in the army and Ugwu is jealous.
Odenigbo’s mother is shot and killed in Abba, and Odenigbo ventures on occupied roads to go bury her.
The chapter ends with Olanna lamenting what she will do because no one knows if Odenigbo is safe.
Chapter 27
Kainene buys a house in Orlu from a school principal whose school has also been turned into a refugee camp.
There is talk of Port Harcourt being captured but the Biafrans stay positive that Port Harcourt will not fall.
Harrison makes his way from Nsukka to Port Harcourt by pretending to have been injured in an air raid.
He tells Richard that he has buried his manuscript of In the Time of Roped Pots in a box in the yard in Nsukka.
Madu asks Richard to write stories about what is going on in Biafra for the international press.
At first, Richard wants to refuse because the request is from Madu, but eventually he accepts and is proud to be part of the war effort.
Port Harcourt is indeed attacked and as Kainene’s household prepares to run away to Orlu, they watch as Ikejide’s (one of her domestic staff’s) head is blown off by shrapnel from the air raid.
After burying Ikejide, the household moves to Orlu where Kainene begins to work with the refugee camp. She also suddenly has a desire to see Olanna, even though she has not been responding to the letters Olanna had sent her until then.
Chapter 28
Chapter 28 of “Half of a Yellow Sun” focuses on the increasing violence and instability in the region as the Biafran War continues.
Olanna is still trying to secure Odenigbo’s release from prison and becomes involved in the efforts of the Biafran government to secure food and supplies for the people.
Meanwhile, Ugwu continues to work for Odenigbo, but begins to question his own beliefs and the political situation in the region.
He becomes disillusioned with the Biafran government and the corruption and violence he witnesses.
The chapter also explores the relationship between Ugwu and Olanna, as Ugwu begins to see Olanna as a maternal figure and turns to her for comfort and support.
The chapter ends with the city of Nsukka being bombed by the Nigerian army, forcing the residents to flee for their lives.
Chapter 29
One day, as Ugwu is returning home from accompanying Eberechi, he is forcedly conscripted into the Biafran army.
There he meets, among others, a young boy nicknamed High-Tech, who does reconnaissance missions for the Biafran army.
Ugwu gets experience of the war at the frontline and blows up some Nigerian soldiers with a land mine. His fellow soldiers nickname him Target Destroyer.
At a bar where Ugwu and his fellow soldiers go to let off steam, they–Ugwu included–gang rape the bar maid.
The chapter ends with Ugwu being hurt in battle.
Chapter 30
In Chapter 30, Richard acts as a guide to two foreign journalists (both named Charles).
He is flabbergasted by their attitudes towards Biafra and the war.
After he witnesses relief planes delivering relief supplies to Biafra, Richard decides that after the war he will write a book entitled “The World Was Silent When We Died”, a narrative of Biafra’s difficult victory and an indictment of the world.
The format of the book Half of a Yellow Sun is such that its chapters are interspersed with sections about a book entitled “The World Was Silent When We Died”.