1. Coup

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's remarkable novel is set during the Nigeria-Biafra War of the late 1960s.

Sisters Olanna and Kainene are the daughters of a "nouveau riche" tribal chief turned businessman and part of the Igbo elite.

Olanna's lover Odenigbo is a revolutionary university professor.

Richard is a British writer who’s in love with Kainene.

Ugwu is a young man employed as a houseboy for Odenigbo.

All of their lives are drastically changed as they become swept up in the brutal civil war.

This is a powerful, compassionate depiction of the human tragedy of those caught up in Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic and the chilling violence and trauma that followed

Dramatised by Janice Okoh.

Narrator ........ Ben Onwukwe
Okeoma ........ Sule Rimi
Odenigbo ........ Adetomiwa Edun
Ugwu ........ Valentine Olukoga
Miss Adebayo/ Mama/ Amala ........ Gbemisola Ikumelo
Olanna ........ Susan Wokoma
Richard ........ Blake Ritson
Kainene ........ Nikki Amuka-Bird
Madu ........ Okezie Morro

Director: Nadia Molinari

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2020.