There Was A Country: A Personal History of Biafra: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the There Was A Country: A Personal History of Biafra audiobook runs 9.4 hours unabridged, narrated by Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (about 6.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 9.4 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 19 days |
| 1 hour / day | 10 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 days |
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What our data says
- At 9.4 hours, it runs longer than 70% of the 5,212 Memoirs audiobooks in our catalog.
About as long, on the Memoirs shelf
1,163 Memoirs audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 170,512 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read October 21, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
There Was A Country: A Personal History of Biafra is an audiobook by Chinua Achebe: a 9.4-hour unabridged recording, read by Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, released October 11, 2012, on the Memoirs and Military (History) shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9.4 hrs
- Narrated by
- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
- Released
- October 11, 2012
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Memoirs, Military (History), Africa
- ISBN
- 9781101579374
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the There Was A Country: A Personal History of Biafra audiobook?
There Was A Country: A Personal History of Biafra runs 9.4 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.3 hours.
Is the There Was A Country: A Personal History of Biafra audiobook free?
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Who narrates There Was A Country: A Personal History of Biafra?
There Was A Country: A Personal History of Biafra is narrated by Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje.