REFLECTION OF WAR CASUALTIES AND ITS AFTERMATH IN SEFI ATTA’S EVERYTHING GOOD WILL COME

Abstract

The Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970) stands as a somber elegy to the fracture of postcolonial nationhood, where the cadence of political discord dissolved into a dirge of human suffering. The aftermath lingered like an unresolved stanza in Nigeria’s national narrative. Beyond the immediate toll, the war etched enduring scars upon the collective psyche—intergenerational grief, fractured ethnic allegiances, and a muted silence around memory that shaped postwar reconciliation. The purpose of this study is to portray the casualties of war and the sorrowful experiences they had, as portrayed by Sefi Atta in the novel Everything Good Will Come.