[WATCH] Travel the World From Your Couch With 10 Movies of the African Diaspora

Half of a Yellow Sun
Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, Onyeka Onwenu, Anika Noni Rose, Genevieve Nnaji, OC Ukeje and John Boyega

“Adapted from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s best-selling historical melodrama, the film follows the events of the Biafran War (1967-1970) through the lives of twin sisters from a wealthy Nigerian family, and the very different trajectories they take as they become swept up in Nigeria’s civil war.” –AK