Half of a Yellow Sun (film)

Half of a Yellow Sun is a 2013 Nigerian Historical fiction drama film directed by Biyi Bandele and based on the novel of the same name by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The film is a love story that follows two sisters who are caught up in the outbreak of the Nigerian Civil War.

During the midtolate sixties, twin sisters Olanna Thandie Newton and Kainene Anika Noni Rose return to Nigeria after their education in England, they make decisions that shock their family. Olanna moves in with her lover, the revolutionary professor Odenigbo Chiwetel Ejiofor and his houseboy Ugwu John Boyega while Kainene takes over the family interests and pursues a career as a businesswoman, falling in love with Richard Joseph Mawle, an English writer. As the Igbo people struggle to establish Biafra as an independent republic, the sisters become caught up in the shocking violence of the Nigerian Civil War and a betrayal that threatens their family forever.Half of a Yellow Sun was shot across five weeks in Tinapa Studio, Calabar and Creek Town, Nigeria. Bandele lists malaria and typhoid as one of the major challenges of the shoot, with several members of the cast and crew becoming ill, including star Thandie Newton. ........

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