Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie tells the story of the <em>Nigerian Civil War</em> around the late 1960s aka <em>"The Biafran War"</em>, a conflict caused by cultural, ethnic and economic tensions between several groups of people in the country, <em>"Half Of a Yellow Sun"</em> is the novel telling that story from the perspective of it's characters; Madu is one of those characters, a military official, who served first in the Nigerian army and later on in the Biafran army, he acts as a catalyst throughout the development, putting pressure on other characters, he contributes to society through his iniciative of letting the world know the truth about the conflict by pushing Richard <em>(representating Britain and the western world)</em> to tell the story.
