ABSTRACT
The experience of Biafrans during the civil war is one that shows a deviation from the norm as a means to survive and win the war. Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie are skillful in treating such issue as the Civil war in Roses and Bullets and Half of a Yellow Sun respectively. They both present their characters to showcase the abnormalities of war and its consequences on Biafrans.
This long essay adopts the qualitative research method and the post-colonial theory which attempts to disrupt the dominant discourse of colonial power, to show aberrations in the Civil war of post independence Nigeria.
This study discusses the unusual ways Biafrans lived during the Nigeria-Biafra civil war of 1967-1970 in Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo's Roses and Bullets and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun. It shows a change in the normal structure or way of things of Biafrans and their living condition doesn't conform to the regular human standard of living. These Biafrans result to doing all they could to survive the war and its consequences.
In this long essay, social and economic aberrations are discussed as depicted in Roses and Bullets and Half of a Yellow Sun to showcase the unusual ways Biafrans survived during the war with their enemies, Nigeria. These aberrations include conscription of young men into the Biafra Army, training of young ladies as constables, rape, robbery, use of secondary schools as training grounds and refugee camps, displacement of lives from the North and Lagos, destruction of properties, embezzlement of relief materials and consumption of inedibles due to starvation.
