War

This study examined the representation of war memory and national trauma in Wale Ogunyemi’s The Flood and Ahmed Yerima’s Echoes of War. It explored how both playwrights employ dramatic art to expose the lingering scars of conflict and the struggle for national healing. Through close textual analysis, the research showed that Ogunyemi used symbolism and myth to portray a community haunted by guilt and divine retribution, while Yerima utilized ritual and performance but focuses on silence as a symbol of unresolved suffering. Both plays transformed memory into resistance, revealing how the burden of war continues to shape Nigeria’s collective conscience. The study concluded that theatre functions as a medium of processing collective trauma, remembrance and renewal, transforming pain into awareness and tragedy into moral reflection. Ultimately, both playwrights affirmed that true healing begins when a nation remembers

This study examines the impact of war on the family as reflected in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun and Sefi Atta’s Everything Good Will Come. It explores how war and political instability destroy family ties, distort affection, and transform domestic life into a site of suffering and endurance. Both writers reveal that conflict extends beyond the battlefield, invading personal spaces and reshaping identity and human relationships. Through the Postcolonial Theory, the study interprets how historical oppression, power struggle, and the search for belonging continue to influence the African social order. It analyses the themes, characterisation, and dialogue of the two novels to show how war breeds trauma, silence, and loss within homes. The findings show that both Adichie and Atta represent the family as a mirror of the nation. In Half of a Yellow Sun, the Biafran War dismembers homes and leaves emotional ruins that reflect the nation’s tragedy. In Everything Good Will Come, dictatorship, social inequality, and moral repression recreate a form of domestic war that stifles growth and love. The research concludes that African women writers use the family setting as a platform for recording the psychological aftermath of national crises. It contributes to scholarship by revealing that the true cost of war is not only in the number of the dead but in the brokenness that lingers within the living.