Half of a Yellow Sun

UNN’s Disruption and Symbolic Significance During the Nigerian Civil War: Closure, Destruction, and Its Representation of Eastern Resilience

The University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), founded in 1960 as a symbol of “intellectual sovereignty” and the first indigenous university in Nigeria, occupied a central place in the aspirations of the newly independent nation. However, the dream of “mental emancipation” was violently interrupted by the Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970). For the people of the Eastern…