Civil Peace
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Chinua Achebe penned "Civil Peace" in 1971, depicting through it the effects of the Nigerian Civil War on a man and his family. The War, which began in 1967 with the secession of several Southeastern provinces from Nigeria, led to an intensive ethnic conflict and wide-spread starvation, destroying national infrastructure and shattering Nigerian society. The Igbo people of the Southeast were particularly hard hit.