Half of a Yellow Sun Premiere - Chiwetel Ejiofor, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie & Onyeka Onwenu

Half of a Yellow Sun Premiere Interviews with Chiwetel Ejiofor, Joseph Mawle, Onyeka Onwenu, director Biyi Bandele, author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Babou Ceesay, producer Andrea Calderwood at the 2013 London Film Festival.
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[@uzi_uzii]

Chimamanda's hair! The culture lives on

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It was an emotional movie to watch..😑. l love Chimmamanda's hair. She's absolutely stunning!

[@sweetieluver14]

About time Joseph Mawle was in more big screen productions!

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Love the actors too they are very talented! !

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Latosha Fitts they are indeed!

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I love it all the book the movie its all just awesome 🌈

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Beautiful. Half a yellow sun.

[@anihJ]

Chiwetala’s authenticity 🔥Brilliant actor

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Wow Love it soooooo much!!!!!!!!!!

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Hats off for this film

[@slajaa]

I can only say ::: Great work

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Glad you enjoyed the video, slajaa! :-)

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I saw it at Tiff '13

[@view_ernie]

Worst movie adaptation I have ever seen. I can't believe what they did to that beautiful book.

[@Omoihoro]

A collection of thieves.

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HALF OF A
YELLOW SUN IS A LITERARY FORGERY
A claim for copyright infringement has been made by Anne Giwa-Amu
against Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Harper Collins Publishers in relation to
the literary work, Half of A Yellow Sun.
Anne Giwa-Amu, a law graduate from the London School of Economics and
Political Science, is demanding damages and an account of profit as a
consequence of the infringement of her copyright in the literary work SADE.
In legal papers submitted to the Court, Ms Giwa-Amu alleged: “As a substantial
amount of original material found in SADE, an earlier copyright work also
appears in Half of A Yellow Sun a later work...Ms Adichie could not have
included this by coincidence”. Ms
Giwa-Amu alleged that in 1998 she sent a copy of her manuscript to Heinemann
Educational Books Ltd, Nigeria. “Chinua
Achebe, a writer linked to the Biafra propaganda effort, was the main decision
maker on the Board of Directors at Heinemann”.
Ms Giwa-Amu was informed that Chinua Achebe read and accepted SADE for
publication for senior secondary school in Nigeria under the sub-title ‘SADE
United We Stand’. Chinua Achebe later
endorsed and promoted Half of A yellow Sun and one of his poems appears on the
first page which would have entitled him to royalties from the sale of the
book. Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda
Adichie share the same literary agent, The Wylie Agency.
During an interview with the Premium Times, Ms Adichie claimed that
after the publication of her first novel, Purple Hibiscus, Chinua Achebe tried
to arrange a meeting with her. Ms
Adichie claims that after this communication with Chinua Achebe she wrote Half
of A Yellow Sun. Although Ms Adichie was
not born until 1977 and did not experience the civil war, she claims to have
written the novel after reading thirty-one books about the war.
In the legal papers, Ms Giwa-Amu alleged that Ms Adichie rewrote her
novel SADE by copying the setting, structure, plot, language, themes,
characterization, incidents, content, form, subject matter, supporting arguments
and scenes. Ms Giwa-Amu has claimed that
every incident from her literary work, SADE, has beeen reword and expanded upon
to create a literary forgery