Set in the late 1960s, Half of a Yellow Sun centers on two glamorous sisters from a wealthy Nigerian family, Olana and Kainene (played by Thandie Newton and Anika Noni Rose), whose paths diverge upon their return home from schooling abroad in England and amidst the political turmoil of the Nigerian civil war.
After a betrayal amongst the sisters, Olana shocks her family by marrying a “revolutionary” professor, and Kainene pursues a career as a businesswoman and surprises herself by falling in love with an English writer.
The sisters soon become caught up in the events of the civil war and the efforts to establish Biafra as an independent republic.
The Media Lab is screening movies at noon on Wednesdays this summer. They're free, there's AC, and there's popcorn! Stop in, eat your lunch, and stay for the whole show! Bring your laptop and do some work, but please silence your phones. This is the final week of the Media Lab's Midweek Matinee Series.
