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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

December 04, 2023

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (/ˌtʃɪməˈmɑːndə əŋˈɡoʊzi əˈdiːtʃi.eɪ/ ⓘ CHI-mə-MAHN-də əng-GOH-zee ə-DEE-chee-ay;[note 1] born 15 September 1977)[4][5] is a Nigerian writer whose works include novels, short stories and nonfiction.[6] She was described in The Times Literary Supplement as "the most prominent" of a "procession of critically acclaimed young anglophone authors" of Nigerian fiction who are attracting a wider audience,[7] particularly in her second home, the United States.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Adichie in 2015
Born (1977-09-15) 15 September 1977 (age 46)
Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria
Pen nameAmanda N. Adichie
OccupationNovelist, short story writer, non-fiction writer
NationalityNigerian
American
Alma materEastern Connecticut State University (BA)
Johns Hopkins University (MA)
Yale University (MA)
Period2003–present
Notable worksPurple Hibiscus (2003)
Half of a Yellow Sun (2006)
Americanah (2013)
We Should All Be Feminists (2014)
Notable awards
Spouse
Ivara Esege
​
(m. 2009)​
[2]
Children1
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's voice
from the BBC programme Front Row, 3 May 2013.[3]
Website
www.chimamanda.com
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talks about The Thing Around Your Neck on Bookbits radio

Adichie has written several novels, among them Purple Hibiscus (2003), Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), and Americanah (2013), short stories, the book-length essays We Should All Be Feminists (2014)[8] and Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (2017), and a memoir, Notes on Grief (2021).[9]

In 2008, she was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant.[10][5] In 2018, she was the recipient of the PEN Pinter Prize awarded by English PEN.[11] She was recognized as one of the BBC's 100 women of 2021.[12]

In 2002, she was shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing for her short story "You in America", and her story "That Harmattan Morning" was selected as a joint winner of the 2002 BBC World Service Short Story Awards. In 2003, she won the David T. Wong International Short Story Prize 2002/2003 (PEN Center Award).[13]

Early life and family edit

Adichie was born in the city of Enugu in Nigeria, the fifth of six children in an Igbo family. She was raised in the university town of Nsukka in Enugu State.[14][5] While she was growing up, her father, James Nwoye Adichie (1932–2020),[15] worked as a professor of statistics at the University of Nigeria. Her mother, Grace Ifeoma (1942–2021),[16] was the university's first female registrar.[17] They lived in a house on campus previously occupied by Chinua Achebe.[18][19] The family lost almost everything during the Nigerian Civil War, including both her maternal and paternal grandfathers.[20] Her family's ancestral village is Abba in Anambra State.[4][21]

Education edit

Adichie completed her secondary education at the University of Nigeria Secondary School, Nsukka, where she received several academic prizes.[19] She studied medicine and pharmacy at the University of Nigeria for a year and a half. During this period, she edited The Compass, a magazine run by the university's Catholic medical students.[22]

At the age of 19, Adichie left Nigeria for the United States to study communications and political science at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[23] She transferred to Eastern Connecticut State University (ECSU) to be near her sister Uche,[24] who had a medical practice in Coventry, Connecticut. She received a bachelor's degree from ECSU,[25] summa cum laude, in 2001.[26]

In 2003, Adichie completed a master's degree in creative writing at Johns Hopkins University.[27] Adichie was a Hodder fellow at Princeton University during the 2005–2006 academic year.[28] In 2008, she received a Master of Arts degree in African studies from Yale University.[29] Also in 2008, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.[10] She was awarded a 2011–2012 fellowship by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.[26]

Adichie has been awarded sixteen honorary doctorate degrees from universities including Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Edinburgh, Duke University, Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University, and the Catholic University of Louvain, where she received her sixteenth in a ceremony on 28 April 2022.[30]

Writing career edit

Adichie published a collection of poems (Decisions) in 1997, and a play (For Love of Biafra) in 1998, using the name Amanda N. Adichie.[31][32] Her short story "My Mother, the Crazy African", dating from when Adichie was a college senior living in Connecticut, discusses the problems that arise when a person is facing two cultures that are complete opposites from each other.[33]

Adichie also published stories in Zoetrope: All-Story,[34] and Topic Magazine.[35]

Her first novel, Purple Hibiscus (2003), received widespread critical acclaim; it was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction (2004)[36][37] and was awarded the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (2005).[38]

Her second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), named after the flag of the short-lived nation of Biafra, is set before and during the Nigerian Civil War.[39] Adichie's own grandfather died in a refugee camp during the war and she has said that she wrote the book as a tribute to him.[18] Adichie has said of Buchi Emecheta's Destination Biafra (1982): "[It] was very important for my research when I was writing Half of a Yellow Sun."[40] Half of a Yellow Sun received the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction[41] and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.[42] Half of a Yellow Sun was adapted into a film of the same title directed by Biyi Bandele, starring BAFTA award-winner and Academy Award nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor and BAFTA winner Thandiwe Newton, and was released in 2014.[43] In November 2020, Half of a Yellow Sun was voted by the public to be the best book to have won the Women's Prize for Fiction in its 25-year history.[44]

In 2008, she published a short story called "A Private Experience" in which two women from different cultures learn to understand each other in the middle of a crisis.[45]

Adichie's third book, The Thing Around Your Neck (2009), is a collection of 12 stories that explore the relationships between men and women, parents and children, Africa and the United States.[46]

Adichie's story "Ceiling" was included in the 2011 edition of The Best American Short Stories.[47][48]

Her third novel, Americanah (2013), an exploration of a young Nigerian encountering race in America, was selected by The New York Times as one of "The 10 Best Books of 2013".[49] In her youth in Nigeria, Adichie was not accustomed to being identified by the colour of her skin, which only began to happen when she arrived in the United States to attend college. As a black African in America, Adichie was confronted with what it meant to be a person of colour in America. Race as an idea became something that she had to navigate and learn.[50] She then wrote about this experience through this novel.[51] The book went on to win the National Book Critics Circle Award[52] and was picked as the winner for the 2017 "One Book, One New York" program,[53][54][55] part of a community reading initiative encouraging all city residents to read the same book.[56]

In 2015, she was co-curator of the PEN World Voices festival in New York City.[57][58] She delivered the festival's closing address, which she concluded by saying: "I will stand and I will speak for the right of everyone, everyone, to tell his or her story."[59]

Her next book, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, published in March 2017,[60] had its origins in a letter Adichie wrote to a friend who had asked for advice about how to raise her daughter as a feminist.[61]

In 2020, Adichie published Zikora, a stand-alone short story about sexism and single motherhood.[62]

In May 2021, Adichie released a memoir based on her father's death titled Notes on Grief,[9][63] based on an essay of the same title published in The New Yorker in September,2020.[64] As described by the reviewer for The Independent, "Her words put a welcome, authentic voice to this most universal of emotions, which is also one of the most universally avoided."[65]

Later that year, Open Country Mag noted in a cover story about Adichie's legacy: "Every one of her novels, in expanding her subject matter, broke down a wall in publishing. Purple Hibiscus proved that there was an international market for African realist fiction post-Achebe. Half of a Yellow Sun showed that that market could care about African histories. The novels say: We can be specific in storytelling."[66]

In April 2022, Adiche's first children’s book, titled Mama’s Sleeping Scarf, was announced for release in autumn 2023, dedicated to her daughter.[67][68]

When history professor Toyin Falola was interviewed, he spoke about some Nigerian figures whom he believes have been recognized prematurely for their achievements. In his argument, he cited several Nigerian academics who are rightly what he calls "intellectual heroes". His list includes Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Chinua Achebe, Teslim Elias, Babatunde Fafunwa, Simeon Adebo, Bala Usman, Eni Njoku, Ayodele Awojobi and Bolanle Awe.[69]

Influences edit

Adichie's original and initial inspiration came from Chinua Achebe, after reading his 1958 novel Things Fall Apart at the age of 10;[70] Adichie has said that she realized that people who looked like herself could "live in books" while reading Achebe's novels.[19] She has also named Buchi Emecheta as a Nigerian literary inspiration, upon whose death Adichie said: "Buchi Emecheta. We are able to speak because you first spoke. Thank you for your courage. Thank you for your art Nodu na ndokwa."[71][72] Other books Adichie has cited as having been important in her reading include Camara Laye's The African Child and the 1992 anthology Daughters of Africa edited by Margaret Busby.[73]

Lectures edit

"The Danger of a Single Story" edit

Adichie delivered a talk titled "The Danger of a Single Story" for TED in 2009.[74] It has become one of the most viewed TED Talks of all time, having amassed over 33 million views.[75] In the talk she expressed her concern for under-representation of various cultures.[76] She explained that as a young child, she had often read American and British stories where the characters were primarily of Caucasian origin. At the lecture, she said that the under-representation of cultural differences could be dangerous.[76] Adichie concluded the lecture by noting the significance of different stories in various cultures and the representation that they deserve. She advocated for a greater understanding of stories because people are complex, saying that by understanding only a single story, one misinterprets people, their backgrounds, and their histories.[77] Since 2009, she revisited the topic when speaking to audiences such as the Hilton Humanitarian Symposium of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation in 2019.[78]

"We should all be feminists" edit

In 2012, Adichie gave a TEDx talk entitled: "We should all be feminists", delivered at TedXEuston in London, which has been viewed more than five million times[79] and was later published as a book in 2014 by Fourth Estate titled We Should All Be Feminists. The book has reportedly sold 750,000 copies in the U.S. alone.[60] She shared her experiences of being an African feminist, and her views on gender construction and sexuality. She has stated that in terms of gender, she is "becoming less interested in the way the West sees Africa, and more interested in how Africa sees itself."[80] Adichie said that the problem with gender is that it shapes who we are.[79] She also said: "I am angry. Gender as it functions today is a grave injustice. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change, but in addition to being angry, I'm also hopeful because I believe deeply in the ability of human beings to make and remake themselves for the better."[81] On 8 December 2021, Adichie was interviewed by BBC News about the responsibility of being a feminist icon; she stated that she did not want another person to define her responsibility and she rather defined her responsibility for herself but did not mind using her platform to speak up for someone else. She also spoke about the right of women to be angry, because anger propels action.[82]

Sampling in "Flawless" edit

Parts of Adichie's TEDx talk were sampled in Beyoncé's song "Flawless" in December 2013.[83]

When asked in an NPR interview for her reaction to Beyoncé sampling her talk, Adichie said that "anything that gets young people talking about feminism is a very good thing".[17] She later qualified the statement in an interview with the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant: "Another thing I hated was that I read everywhere: now people finally know her, thanks to Beyoncé, or: she must be very grateful. I found that disappointing. I thought: I am a writer and I have been for some time and I refuse to perform in this charade that is now apparently expected of me: 'Thanks to Beyoncé, my life will never be the same again.' That's why I didn't speak about it much."[84]

Adichie has clarified that her particular feminism differs from Beyoncé's, particularly in their disagreements about the role occupied by men in women's lives, saying: "Her style is not my style, but I do find it interesting that she takes a stand in political and social issues since a few years. She portrays a woman who is in charge of her own destiny, who does her own thing, and she has girl power. I am very taken with that."[84] Nevertheless, Adichie has been outspoken against critics who question the singer's credentials as a feminist and has said: "Whoever says they're feminist is bloody feminist."[85]

"Connecting Cultures" edit

On 15 March 2012, Adichie delivered the Commonwealth Lecture 2012 at the Guildhall, London, addressing the theme "Connecting Cultures" and explaining: "Realistic fiction is not merely the recording of the real, as it were, it is more than that, it seeks to infuse the real with meaning. As events unfold, we do not always know what they mean. But in telling the story of what happened, meaning emerges and we are able to make connections with emotive significance."[38][86]

"Freedom of speech" edit

On 30 November 2022, Adichie delivered the first of the BBC's 2022 Reith Lectures inspired by Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms" speech.[87][88]

Views edit

Feminism edit

In a 2014 interview, Adichie said on feminism and writing: "I think of myself as a storyteller, but I would not mind at all if someone were to think of me as a feminist writer... I'm very feminist in the way I look at the world, and that world view must somehow be part of my work."[52]

Religion edit

Adichie is a Catholic and was raised Catholic as a child, though she considers her views, especially those on feminism, to sometimes conflict with her religion. At a 2017 event at Georgetown University, she stated that religion "is not a women-friendly institution" and "has been used to justify oppressions that are based on the idea that women are not equal human beings".[89] She has called for Christian and Muslim leaders in Nigeria to preach messages of peace and togetherness.[90] Having previously identified as agnostic while raising her daughter Catholic, she has also identified as culturally Catholic. In a 2021 Humboldt Forum, she stated that she had returned to her Catholic faith.[91]

LGBT rights edit

Adichie supports LGBT rights in Africa; in 2014, when Nigeria passed an anti-homosexuality bill, she was among the Nigerian writers who objected to the law, calling it unconstitutional and "a strange priority to a country with so many real problems", stating that a crime is a crime for a reason because a crime has victims, and that since consensual homosexual conduct between adults does not constitute a crime, the law is unjust.[92] Adichie was also close friends with Kenyan openly gay writer Binyavanga Wainaina,[93] and when he died on 1 May 2019 after suffering a stroke in Nairobi, Adichie said in her tribute that she was struggling to stop crying.[94]

Since 2017, Adichie has been repeatedly accused of transphobia, initially for saying that "my feeling is trans women are trans women" in response to the question "Are trans women women?"[95][61] Adichie later clarified her statement, writing: "[p]erhaps I should have said trans women are trans women and cis women are cis women and all are women. Except that 'cis' is not an organic part of my vocabulary. And would probably not be understood by a majority of people. Because saying 'trans' and 'cis' acknowledges that there is a distinction between women born female and women who transition, without elevating one or the other, which was my point. I have and will continue to stand up for the rights of transgender people."[96]

In 2020, Adichie weighed into "all the noise" sparked by J. K. Rowling's article titled "J.K. Rowling Writes about Her Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues",[97] and called the essay "perfectly reasonable".[98] Adichie again faced accusations of transphobia, some of which came from Nigerian author Akwaeke Emezi, who had graduated from Adichie's writing workshop.[99] In response to the backlash, Adichie criticized cancel culture, saying: "There's a sense in which you aren't allowed to learn and grow. Also, forgiveness is out of the question. I find it so lacking in compassion."[97]

In a June 2021 essay titled "It Is Obscene", Adichie again criticized cancel culture, discussing her experiences with two unnamed writers who attended her writing workshop and later lambasted her on social media over comments she made about transgender people. She labelled what she called their "passionate performance of virtue that is well executed in the public space of Twitter but not in the intimate space of friendship" as "obscene".[100][101]

In late 2022, she faced further criticism for her views, after in an interview with The Guardian, saying "So somebody who looks like my brother – he says, ‘I’m a woman’, and walks into the women’s bathroom, and a woman goes, ‘You’re not supposed to be here’, and she’s transphobic?"[102][103]

Personal life edit

In 2009, Adichie married Ivara Esege, a Nigerian doctor.[4][104] They have one daughter, who was born in 2016.[105]

Adichie divides her time between the United States and Nigeria, where she teaches writing workshops.[106][2]

Awards and recognition edit

In 2002, she was shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing[107][108] for her short story "You in America",[109][110][111] and her story "That Harmattan Morning" was selected as a joint winner of the 2002 BBC World Service Short Story Awards.[112] In 2003, she won the David T. Wong International Short Story Prize 2002/2003 (PEN Center award).[113]

In 2010, she was listed among the authors of The New Yorker's "20 Under 40" Fiction Issue.[114] In April, 2014, she was named as one of 39 writers aged under 40[115] in the Hay Festival and Rainbow Book Club project Africa39, celebrating Port Harcourt UNESCO World Book Capital 2014.[116][117]

In April 2017, it was announced that Adichie had been elected as one of 228 new members to be inducted on 7 October 2017 into the 237th class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the highest honours for intellectuals in the United States.[118][119]

She was the recipient of the PEN Pinter Prize in 2018, and at the award ceremony named human rights activist Waleed Abulkhair as the year's "International Writer of Courage" with whom she shared the prize.[120][121]

Adichie holds 16 honorary doctorate degrees from universities including Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Edinburgh, Duke University, Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University, and the Catholic University of Louvain.[30] In 2016, she was conferred with an honorary degree, Doctor of Humane letters, honoris causa, by Johns Hopkins University.[122][123] In 2017, she was conferred an honorary degree, Doctor of Humane letters, honoris causa, by Haverford College[124] and The University of Edinburgh.[125] In 2018, she received an honorary degree, Doctor of Humane Letters, from Amherst College.[126] She received an honorary degree, doctor honoris causa, from the Université de Fribourg, Switzerland, in 2019.[127] On 20 May 2019, Adichie received an honorary degree from Yale University.[128] On 28 April 2022, she received her 16th honorary doctorate degree from the Catholic University of Louvain.[30]

 
Adichie on the cover of Ms. in 2014

On 13 October 2022, a member of Adichie's communications team told the Nigerian newspaper The Guardian that she rejected an award that was to be given to her by the government of President Muhammadu Buhari: "The author did not accept the award and, as such, did not attend the ceremony."[129] On 30 December 2022, Adichie was made the Odeluwa of Abba, a Nigerian chief, by the kingdom of Abba in her native Anambra State. She was the first woman to receive such an honor from the kingdom.[130]

Year Award Work Result
2002 Caine Prize for African Writing[107] "You in America" Nominated[A]
Commonwealth Short Story Competition "The Tree in Grandma's Garden" Nominated[B]
BBCmeasuring Competition "That Harmattan Morning" Won[C]
2002/2003 David T. Wong International Short Story Prize (PEN American Center Award) "Half of a Yellow Sun" Won
2003 O. Henry Prize "The American Embassy" Won
2004 Hurston-Wright Legacy Award: Best Debut Fiction Category Purple Hibiscus Won
Orange Prize Nominated[A]
Booker Prize Nominated[D]
Young Adult Library Services Association Best Books for Young Adults Award Nominated
2004/2005 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize Nominated[A]
2005 Commonwealth Writers' Prize: Best First Book (Africa) Won
Commonwealth Writers' Prize: Best First Book (overall) Won
2006 National Book Critics Circle Award Half of a Yellow Sun Nominated
2007 British Book Awards: "Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year" category Nominated
James Tait Black Memorial Prize Nominated
Commonwealth Writers' Prize: Best Book (Africa) Nominated[A]
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award: Fiction category Won[C]
PEN Beyond Margins Award Won[C]
Orange Broadband Prize: Fiction category Won
2008 International Dublin Literary Award Nominated
Reader's Digest Author of the Year Award Won
Future Award, Nigeria: Young Person of the Year category[131] Won
MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant[132] Won
2009 International Nonino Prize[133] Won
Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award The Thing Around Your Neck Nominated[D]
John Llewellyn Rhys Prize Nominated[A]
2010 Commonwealth Writers' Prize: Best Book (Africa) Nominated[A]
Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominated[B]
2011 This Day Awards: "New Champions for an Enduring Culture" category Nominated
2013 Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize: Fiction category Americanah Won
National Book Critics Circle Award: Fiction category[134][135] Won
2014 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction[136] Nominated[A]
Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction[137] Nominated[A]
MTV Africa Music Awards 2014: Personality of the Year[138] Nominated
2015 International Dublin Literary Award[139][140] Americanah Nominated[A]
Grammy Awards: Album of the Year[141] Beyoncé (as featured artist) Nominated
2018 PEN Pinter Prize[142][143] Won
A^ Shortlisted
B^ Runner-up
C^ Joint win
D^ Longlisted

Other recognition edit

Bibliography edit

Books edit

Year Title Publisher ISBN Notes
1997 Decisions Minerva Press (London) ISBN 9781861064226 Poetry
1998 For Love of Biafra Spectrum Books (Ibadan) ISBN 9789780290320 Play
2003 Purple Hibiscus 4th Estate (London) ISBN 9780007189885 Novel
2006 Half of a Yellow Sun 4th Estate (London) ISBN 9780007200283 Novel
2009 The Thing Around Your Neck 4th Estate (London) ISBN 9780007306213 Short story collection
2013 Americanah Alfred A. Knopf (New York) ISBN 9780307271082 Novel
2014 We Should All Be Feminists 4th Estate (London) ISBN 9780008115272 Essay (excerpt in New Daughters of Africa, ed. Margaret Busby, 2019)[156]
2017 Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions 4th Estate (London) ISBN 9780008275709 Essay
2019 Sierra Leone, 1997 Black Balloon, an imprint of Catapult ISBN 9781936787791 Story in the book Eat Joy - Stories & Comfort Food from 31 Celebrated Writers, collected by Natalie Eve Garrett
2021 Notes on Grief 4th Estate (London) ISBN 9780593320808 Memoir/personal essay[157]

Short fiction edit

Year Title First published
2007 "Cell One" "Cell One". The New Yorker. 22 January 2007.
2008 "The Headstrong Historian" "The Headstrong Historian". The New Yorker. 16 June 2008.
2008 "A Private Experience" "A Private Experience: A short story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie". The Observer. 28 December 2008.
2010 "Birdsong" "Birdsong". The New Yorker. 20 September 2010.
2013 "Checking Out" "Checking out". The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 5. 18 March 2013. pp. 66–73.
2015 "Olikoye" "Olikoye". Matter. 19 January 2015.
2015 "Apollo" "Apollo". The New Yorker. Vol. 91, no. 8. 13 April 2015. pp. 64–69.
2016 "The Arrangements: A Work of Fiction" "'The Arrangements': A Work of Short Fiction". The New York Times Book Review. 3 July 2016.
2020 "Zikora" Amazon Original Stories[62]

See also edit

References edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ Adichie's name has been pronounced a variety of ways in English. This transcription attempts to best approximate the Igbo pronunciation for English-speaking readers.

Citations edit

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  28. ^ "The Hodder Fellowship". arts.princeton.edu. Princeton University. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
  29. ^ "Recent Alumni". african.macmillan.yale.edu. Council on African Studies, Yale University. Retrieved 16 January 2017.
  30. ^ a b c "Chimamanda to receive 16th honorary PHD from the Catholic University of Louvain Belgium". guardian.ng. The Guardian. 22 March 2022. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
  31. ^ "Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi 1977– | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 15 May 2022.
  32. ^ "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Biography, Books, & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 15 May 2022.
  33. ^ Adichie, Amanda Ngozi. "My Mother, the Crazy African". Web Del Sol | In Posse Review. Spectrum Publishers. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  34. ^ . Zoetrope: All-Story. US: The Family Coppola. 2003. Archived from the original on 30 August 2017.
  35. ^ Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi (Winter 2003). "Home is Where the Heart Was". Topic Magazine. No. 3.
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Further reading edit

  • Ernest N. Emenyonu (ed.), A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, James Currey/Boydell and Brewer, 2017, ISBN 978-1847011633
  • Ojo, Akinleye Ayinuola, "Discursive Construction of Sexuality and Sexual Orientations in Chimamanda Adichie's Americanah". Ibadan Journal of English Studies 7 (2018): 543-560-224.

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  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie at TED  
    • "The Danger of a Single Story". ted.com. TED. July 2009.
    • "We should all be feminists". TEDx Euston. 12 April 2013.
  • Messud, Claire, ed. (1 February 2010). . Guernica. Archived from the original on 14 March 2010.
  • Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi (15 January 2012). "Why Are You Here?". Guernica.
  • Anya, Ikechuku (15 October 2005). "In the Footsteps of Achebe: Enter Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie". African Writer.
  • Murray, Senan (8 June 2007). "The new face of Nigerian literature?". BBC News.
  • "Michio Kaku, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Angela Hobbs" (Audio). The Forum. BBC World Service. 13 April 2008.
  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Commonwealth Lecture 2012 on YouTube. 16 March 2012.
  • "Why Chimamanda Adichie Will Not 'Shut Up'". Publishers Weekly. Frankfurt Book Fair 2018. 19 October 2018.
  • "'I am a pessimistic optimist': Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie answers authors' questions". The Guardian. 4 December 2020.
  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on the Muck Rack journalist listing site  

December 04, 2023
chimamanda, ngozi, adichie, ɑː, mahn, əng, chee, note, born, september, 1977, nigerian, writer, whose, works, include, novels, short, stories, nonfiction, described, times, literary, supplement, most, prominent, procession, critically, acclaimed, young, anglop. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ˌ tʃ ɪ m e ˈ m ɑː n d e e ŋ ˈ ɡ oʊ z i e ˈ d iː tʃ i eɪ CHI me MAHN de eng GOH zee e DEE chee ay note 1 born 15 September 1977 4 5 is a Nigerian writer whose works include novels short stories and nonfiction 6 She was described in The Times Literary Supplement as the most prominent of a procession of critically acclaimed young anglophone authors of Nigerian fiction who are attracting a wider audience 7 particularly in her second home the United States Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieAdichie in 2015Born 1977 09 15 15 September 1977 age 46 Enugu Enugu State NigeriaPen nameAmanda N AdichieOccupationNovelist short story writer non fiction writerNationalityNigerianAmericanAlma materEastern Connecticut State University BA Johns Hopkins University MA Yale University MA Period2003 presentNotable worksPurple Hibiscus 2003 Half of a Yellow Sun 2006 Americanah 2013 We Should All Be Feminists 2014 Notable awardsMacArthur Fellowship 2008 International Nonino Prize 2009 PEN Pinter Prize 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction 2014 1 SpouseIvara Esege m 2009 wbr 2 Children1Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie s voice source source source from the BBC programme Front Row 3 May 2013 3 Websitewww wbr chimamanda wbr com source source Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talks about The Thing Around Your Neck on Bookbits radioAdichie has written several novels among them Purple Hibiscus 2003 Half of a Yellow Sun 2006 and Americanah 2013 short stories the book length essays We Should All Be Feminists 2014 8 and Dear Ijeawele or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions 2017 and a memoir Notes on Grief 2021 9 In 2008 she was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant 10 5 In 2018 she was the recipient of the PEN Pinter Prize awarded by English PEN 11 She was recognized as one of the BBC s 100 women of 2021 12 In 2002 she was shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing for her short story You in America and her story That Harmattan Morning was selected as a joint winner of the 2002 BBC World Service Short Story Awards In 2003 she won the David T Wong International Short Story Prize 2002 2003 PEN Center Award 13 Contents 1 Early life and family 2 Education 3 Writing career 3 1 Influences 4 Lectures 4 1 The Danger of a Single Story 4 2 We should all be feminists 4 2 1 Sampling in Flawless 4 3 Connecting Cultures 4 4 Freedom of speech 5 Views 5 1 Feminism 5 2 Religion 5 3 LGBT rights 6 Personal life 7 Awards and recognition 7 1 Other recognition 8 Bibliography 8 1 Books 8 2 Short fiction 9 See also 10 References 10 1 Notes 10 2 Citations 11 Further reading 12 External linksEarly life and family editAdichie was born in the city of Enugu in Nigeria the fifth of six children in an Igbo family She was raised in the university town of Nsukka in Enugu State 14 5 While she was growing up her father James Nwoye Adichie 1932 2020 15 worked as a professor of statistics at the University of Nigeria Her mother Grace Ifeoma 1942 2021 16 was the university s first female registrar 17 They lived in a house on campus previously occupied by Chinua Achebe 18 19 The family lost almost everything during the Nigerian Civil War including both her maternal and paternal grandfathers 20 Her family s ancestral village is Abba in Anambra State 4 21 Education editAdichie completed her secondary education at the University of Nigeria Secondary School Nsukka where she received several academic prizes 19 She studied medicine and pharmacy at the University of Nigeria for a year and a half During this period she edited The Compass a magazine run by the university s Catholic medical students 22 At the age of 19 Adichie left Nigeria for the United States to study communications and political science at Drexel University in Philadelphia Pennsylvania 23 She transferred to Eastern Connecticut State University ECSU to be near her sister Uche 24 who had a medical practice in Coventry Connecticut She received a bachelor s degree from ECSU 25 summa cum laude in 2001 26 In 2003 Adichie completed a master s degree in creative writing at Johns Hopkins University 27 Adichie was a Hodder fellow at Princeton University during the 2005 2006 academic year 28 In 2008 she received a Master of Arts degree in African studies from Yale University 29 Also in 2008 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship 10 She was awarded a 2011 2012 fellowship by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Harvard University 26 Adichie has been awarded sixteen honorary doctorate degrees from universities including Yale University the University of Pennsylvania the University of Edinburgh Duke University Georgetown University Johns Hopkins University and the Catholic University of Louvain where she received her sixteenth in a ceremony on 28 April 2022 30 Writing career editAdichie published a collection of poems Decisions in 1997 and a play For Love of Biafra in 1998 using the name Amanda N Adichie 31 32 Her short story My Mother the Crazy African dating from when Adichie was a college senior living in Connecticut discusses the problems that arise when a person is facing two cultures that are complete opposites from each other 33 Adichie also published stories in Zoetrope All Story 34 and Topic Magazine 35 Her first novel Purple Hibiscus 2003 received widespread critical acclaim it was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2004 36 37 and was awarded the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book 2005 38 Her second novel Half of a Yellow Sun 2006 named after the flag of the short lived nation of Biafra is set before and during the Nigerian Civil War 39 Adichie s own grandfather died in a refugee camp during the war and she has said that she wrote the book as a tribute to him 18 Adichie has said of Buchi Emecheta s Destination Biafra 1982 It was very important for my research when I was writing Half of a Yellow Sun 40 Half of a Yellow Sun received the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction 41 and the Anisfield Wolf Book Award 42 Half of a Yellow Sun was adapted into a film of the same title directed by Biyi Bandele starring BAFTA award winner and Academy Award nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor and BAFTA winner Thandiwe Newton and was released in 2014 43 In November 2020 Half of a Yellow Sun was voted by the public to be the best book to have won the Women s Prize for Fiction in its 25 year history 44 In 2008 she published a short story called A Private Experience in which two women from different cultures learn to understand each other in the middle of a crisis 45 Adichie s third book The Thing Around Your Neck 2009 is a collection of 12 stories that explore the relationships between men and women parents and children Africa and the United States 46 Adichie s story Ceiling was included in the 2011 edition of The Best American Short Stories 47 48 Her third novel Americanah 2013 an exploration of a young Nigerian encountering race in America was selected by The New York Times as one of The 10 Best Books of 2013 49 In her youth in Nigeria Adichie was not accustomed to being identified by the colour of her skin which only began to happen when she arrived in the United States to attend college As a black African in America Adichie was confronted with what it meant to be a person of colour in America Race as an idea became something that she had to navigate and learn 50 She then wrote about this experience through this novel 51 The book went on to win the National Book Critics Circle Award 52 and was picked as the winner for the 2017 One Book One New York program 53 54 55 part of a community reading initiative encouraging all city residents to read the same book 56 In 2015 she was co curator of the PEN World Voices festival in New York City 57 58 She delivered the festival s closing address which she concluded by saying I will stand and I will speak for the right of everyone everyone to tell his or her story 59 Her next book Dear Ijeawele or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions published in March 2017 60 had its origins in a letter Adichie wrote to a friend who had asked for advice about how to raise her daughter as a feminist 61 In 2020 Adichie published Zikora a stand alone short story about sexism and single motherhood 62 In May 2021 Adichie released a memoir based on her father s death titled Notes on Grief 9 63 based on an essay of the same title published in The New Yorker in September 2020 64 As described by the reviewer for The Independent Her words put a welcome authentic voice to this most universal of emotions which is also one of the most universally avoided 65 Later that year Open Country Mag noted in a cover story about Adichie s legacy Every one of her novels in expanding her subject matter broke down a wall in publishing Purple Hibiscus proved that there was an international market for African realist fiction post Achebe Half of a Yellow Sun showed that that market could care about African histories The novels say We can be specific in storytelling 66 In April 2022 Adiche s first children s book titled Mama s Sleeping Scarf was announced for release in autumn 2023 dedicated to her daughter 67 68 When history professor Toyin Falola was interviewed he spoke about some Nigerian figures whom he believes have been recognized prematurely for their achievements In his argument he cited several Nigerian academics who are rightly what he calls intellectual heroes His list includes Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Chinua Achebe Teslim Elias Babatunde Fafunwa Simeon Adebo Bala Usman Eni Njoku Ayodele Awojobi and Bolanle Awe 69 Influences edit Adichie s original and initial inspiration came from Chinua Achebe after reading his 1958 novel Things Fall Apart at the age of 10 70 Adichie has said that she realized that people who looked like herself could live in books while reading Achebe s novels 19 She has also named Buchi Emecheta as a Nigerian literary inspiration upon whose death Adichie said Buchi Emecheta We are able to speak because you first spoke Thank you for your courage Thank you for your art Nodu na ndokwa 71 72 Other books Adichie has cited as having been important in her reading include Camara Laye s The African Child and the 1992 anthology Daughters of Africa edited by Margaret Busby 73 Lectures edit The Danger of a Single Story edit Adichie delivered a talk titled The Danger of a Single Story for TED in 2009 74 It has become one of the most viewed TED Talks of all time having amassed over 33 million views 75 In the talk she expressed her concern for under representation of various cultures 76 She explained that as a young child she had often read American and British stories where the characters were primarily of Caucasian origin At the lecture she said that the under representation of cultural differences could be dangerous 76 Adichie concluded the lecture by noting the significance of different stories in various cultures and the representation that they deserve She advocated for a greater understanding of stories because people are complex saying that by understanding only a single story one misinterprets people their backgrounds and their histories 77 Since 2009 she revisited the topic when speaking to audiences such as the Hilton Humanitarian Symposium of the Conrad N Hilton Foundation in 2019 78 We should all be feminists edit In 2012 Adichie gave a TEDx talk entitled We should all be feminists delivered at TedXEuston in London which has been viewed more than five million times 79 and was later published as a book in 2014 by Fourth Estate titled We Should All Be Feminists The book has reportedly sold 750 000 copies in the U S alone 60 She shared her experiences of being an African feminist and her views on gender construction and sexuality She has stated that in terms of gender she is becoming less interested in the way the West sees Africa and more interested in how Africa sees itself 80 Adichie said that the problem with gender is that it shapes who we are 79 She also said I am angry Gender as it functions today is a grave injustice We should all be angry Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change but in addition to being angry I m also hopeful because I believe deeply in the ability of human beings to make and remake themselves for the better 81 On 8 December 2021 Adichie was interviewed by BBC News about the responsibility of being a feminist icon she stated that she did not want another person to define her responsibility and she rather defined her responsibility for herself but did not mind using her platform to speak up for someone else She also spoke about the right of women to be angry because anger propels action 82 Sampling in Flawless edit Parts of Adichie s TEDx talk were sampled in Beyonce s song Flawless in December 2013 83 When asked in an NPR interview for her reaction to Beyonce sampling her talk Adichie said that anything that gets young people talking about feminism is a very good thing 17 She later qualified the statement in an interview with the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant Another thing I hated was that I read everywhere now people finally know her thanks to Beyonce or she must be very grateful I found that disappointing I thought I am a writer and I have been for some time and I refuse to perform in this charade that is now apparently expected of me Thanks to Beyonce my life will never be the same again That s why I didn t speak about it much 84 Adichie has clarified that her particular feminism differs from Beyonce s particularly in their disagreements about the role occupied by men in women s lives saying Her style is not my style but I do find it interesting that she takes a stand in political and social issues since a few years She portrays a woman who is in charge of her own destiny who does her own thing and she has girl power I am very taken with that 84 Nevertheless Adichie has been outspoken against critics who question the singer s credentials as a feminist and has said Whoever says they re feminist is bloody feminist 85 Connecting Cultures edit On 15 March 2012 Adichie delivered the Commonwealth Lecture 2012 at the Guildhall London addressing the theme Connecting Cultures and explaining Realistic fiction is not merely the recording of the real as it were it is more than that it seeks to infuse the real with meaning As events unfold we do not always know what they mean But in telling the story of what happened meaning emerges and we are able to make connections with emotive significance 38 86 Freedom of speech edit On 30 November 2022 Adichie delivered the first of the BBC s 2022 Reith Lectures inspired by Franklin D Roosevelt s Four Freedoms speech 87 88 Views editFeminism edit In a 2014 interview Adichie said on feminism and writing I think of myself as a storyteller but I would not mind at all if someone were to think of me as a feminist writer I m very feminist in the way I look at the world and that world view must somehow be part of my work 52 Religion edit Adichie is a Catholic and was raised Catholic as a child though she considers her views especially those on feminism to sometimes conflict with her religion At a 2017 event at Georgetown University she stated that religion is not a women friendly institution and has been used to justify oppressions that are based on the idea that women are not equal human beings 89 She has called for Christian and Muslim leaders in Nigeria to preach messages of peace and togetherness 90 Having previously identified as agnostic while raising her daughter Catholic she has also identified as culturally Catholic In a 2021 Humboldt Forum she stated that she had returned to her Catholic faith 91 LGBT rights edit Adichie supports LGBT rights in Africa in 2014 when Nigeria passed an anti homosexuality bill she was among the Nigerian writers who objected to the law calling it unconstitutional and a strange priority to a country with so many real problems stating that a crime is a crime for a reason because a crime has victims and that since consensual homosexual conduct between adults does not constitute a crime the law is unjust 92 Adichie was also close friends with Kenyan openly gay writer Binyavanga Wainaina 93 and when he died on 1 May 2019 after suffering a stroke in Nairobi Adichie said in her tribute that she was struggling to stop crying 94 Since 2017 Adichie has been repeatedly accused of transphobia initially for saying that my feeling is trans women are trans women in response to the question Are trans women women 95 61 Adichie later clarified her statement writing p erhaps I should have said trans women are trans women and cis women are cis women and all are women Except that cis is not an organic part of my vocabulary And would probably not be understood by a majority of people Because saying trans and cis acknowledges that there is a distinction between women born female and women who transition without elevating one or the other which was my point I have and will continue to stand up for the rights of transgender people 96 In 2020 Adichie weighed into all the noise sparked by J K Rowling s article titled J K Rowling Writes about Her Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues 97 and called the essay perfectly reasonable 98 Adichie again faced accusations of transphobia some of which came from Nigerian author Akwaeke Emezi who had graduated from Adichie s writing workshop 99 In response to the backlash Adichie criticized cancel culture saying There s a sense in which you aren t allowed to learn and grow Also forgiveness is out of the question I find it so lacking in compassion 97 In a June 2021 essay titled It Is Obscene Adichie again criticized cancel culture discussing her experiences with two unnamed writers who attended her writing workshop and later lambasted her on social media over comments she made about transgender people She labelled what she called their passionate performance of virtue that is well executed in the public space of Twitter but not in the intimate space of friendship as obscene 100 101 In late 2022 she faced further criticism for her views after in an interview with The Guardian saying So somebody who looks like my brother he says I m a woman and walks into the women s bathroom and a woman goes You re not supposed to be here and she s transphobic 102 103 Personal life editIn 2009 Adichie married Ivara Esege a Nigerian doctor 4 104 They have one daughter who was born in 2016 105 Adichie divides her time between the United States and Nigeria where she teaches writing workshops 106 2 Awards and recognition editIn 2002 she was shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing 107 108 for her short story You in America 109 110 111 and her story That Harmattan Morning was selected as a joint winner of the 2002 BBC World Service Short Story Awards 112 In 2003 she won the David T Wong International Short Story Prize 2002 2003 PEN Center award 113 In 2010 she was listed among the authors of The New Yorker s 20 Under 40 Fiction Issue 114 In April 2014 she was named as one of 39 writers aged under 40 115 in the Hay Festival and Rainbow Book Club project Africa39 celebrating Port Harcourt UNESCO World Book Capital 2014 116 117 In April 2017 it was announced that Adichie had been elected as one of 228 new members to be inducted on 7 October 2017 into the 237th class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences one of the highest honours for intellectuals in the United States 118 119 She was the recipient of the PEN Pinter Prize in 2018 and at the award ceremony named human rights activist Waleed Abulkhair as the year s International Writer of Courage with whom she shared the prize 120 121 Adichie holds 16 honorary doctorate degrees from universities including Yale University the University of Pennsylvania the University of Edinburgh Duke University Georgetown University Johns Hopkins University and the Catholic University of Louvain 30 In 2016 she was conferred with an honorary degree Doctor of Humane letters honoris causa by Johns Hopkins University 122 123 In 2017 she was conferred an honorary degree Doctor of Humane letters honoris causa by Haverford College 124 and The University of Edinburgh 125 In 2018 she received an honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters from Amherst College 126 She received an honorary degree doctor honoris causa from the Universite de Fribourg Switzerland in 2019 127 On 20 May 2019 Adichie received an honorary degree from Yale University 128 On 28 April 2022 she received her 16th honorary doctorate degree from the Catholic University of Louvain 30 nbsp Adichie on the cover of Ms in 2014On 13 October 2022 a member of Adichie s communications team told the Nigerian newspaper The Guardian that she rejected an award that was to be given to her by the government of President Muhammadu Buhari The author did not accept the award and as such did not attend the ceremony 129 On 30 December 2022 Adichie was made the Odeluwa of Abba a Nigerian chief by the kingdom of Abba in her native Anambra State She was the first woman to receive such an honor from the kingdom 130 Year Award Work Result2002 Caine Prize for African Writing 107 You in America Nominated A Commonwealth Short Story Competition The Tree in Grandma s Garden Nominated B BBCmeasuring Competition That Harmattan Morning Won C 2002 2003 David T Wong International Short Story Prize PEN American Center Award Half of a Yellow Sun Won2003 O Henry Prize The American Embassy Won2004 Hurston Wright Legacy Award Best Debut Fiction Category Purple Hibiscus WonOrange Prize Nominated A Booker Prize Nominated D Young Adult Library Services Association Best Books for Young Adults Award Nominated2004 2005 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize Nominated A 2005 Commonwealth Writers Prize Best First Book Africa WonCommonwealth Writers Prize Best First Book overall Won2006 National Book Critics Circle Award Half of a Yellow Sun Nominated2007 British Book Awards Richard amp Judy Best Read of the Year category NominatedJames Tait Black Memorial Prize NominatedCommonwealth Writers Prize Best Book Africa Nominated A Anisfield Wolf Book Award Fiction category Won C PEN Beyond Margins Award Won C Orange Broadband Prize Fiction category Won2008 International Dublin Literary Award NominatedReader s Digest Author of the Year Award WonFuture Award Nigeria Young Person of the Year category 131 WonMacArthur Foundation Genius Grant 132 Won2009 International Nonino Prize 133 WonFrank O Connor International Short Story Award The Thing Around Your Neck Nominated D John Llewellyn Rhys Prize Nominated A 2010 Commonwealth Writers Prize Best Book Africa Nominated A Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominated B 2011 This Day Awards New Champions for an Enduring Culture category Nominated2013 Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize Fiction category Americanah WonNational Book Critics Circle Award Fiction category 134 135 Won2014 Baileys Women s Prize for Fiction 136 Nominated A Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction 137 Nominated A MTV Africa Music Awards 2014 Personality of the Year 138 Nominated2015 International Dublin Literary Award 139 140 Americanah Nominated A Grammy Awards Album of the Year 141 Beyonce as featured artist Nominated2018 PEN Pinter Prize 142 143 WonA Shortlisted B Runner up C Joint win D LonglistedOther recognition edit 2010 Listed among The New Yorker s 20 Under 40 2013 Listed among The New York Times Ten Best Books of 2013 for Americanah 144 2013 Listed among the BBC s Top Ten Books of 2013 for Americanah 145 2013 Foreign Policy magazine Top Global Thinkers of 2013 146 2013 Listed among New African magazine s 100 Most Influential Africans 2013 2014 Listed among Africa39 project of 39 writers aged under 40 147 2015 Listed among Time magazine s 100 Most Influential People 148 2015 Commencement Speaker at Wellesley College 149 2017 Commencement Speaker at Williams College 150 2017 Elected in March 2017 into the American Academy of Arts and Letters Adichie was the second Nigerian to be given the honour after Prof Wole Soyinka She was listed among the 40 Honorary members from 19 countries 151 2018 Class Day Speaker for Harvard University 152 2019 Class Day Speaker for Yale University 153 2019 Adichie was one of 15 women selected to appear on the cover of the September 2019 issue of British Vogue guest edited by Meghan Duchess of Sussex 154 2019 Adichie was cited as one of the Top 100 most influential Africans by New African magazine 155 Bibliography editBooks edit Year Title Publisher ISBN Notes1997 Decisions Minerva Press London ISBN 9781861064226 Poetry1998 For Love of Biafra Spectrum Books Ibadan ISBN 9789780290320 Play2003 Purple Hibiscus 4th Estate London ISBN 9780007189885 Novel2006 Half of a Yellow Sun 4th Estate London ISBN 9780007200283 Novel2009 The Thing Around Your Neck 4th Estate London ISBN 9780007306213 Short story collection2013 Americanah Alfred A Knopf New York ISBN 9780307271082 Novel2014 We Should All Be Feminists 4th Estate London ISBN 9780008115272 Essay excerpt in New Daughters of Africa ed Margaret Busby 2019 156 2017 Dear Ijeawele or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions 4th Estate London ISBN 9780008275709 Essay2019 Sierra Leone 1997 Black Balloon an imprint of Catapult ISBN 9781936787791 Story in the book Eat Joy Stories amp Comfort Food from 31 Celebrated Writers collected by Natalie Eve Garrett2021 Notes on Grief 4th Estate London ISBN 9780593320808 Memoir personal essay 157 Short fiction edit This list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items June 2015 Year Title First published2007 Cell One Cell One The New Yorker 22 January 2007 2008 The Headstrong Historian The Headstrong Historian The New Yorker 16 June 2008 2008 A Private Experience A Private Experience A short story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The Observer 28 December 2008 2010 Birdsong Birdsong The New Yorker 20 September 2010 2013 Checking Out Checking out The New Yorker Vol 89 no 5 18 March 2013 pp 66 73 2015 Olikoye Olikoye Matter 19 January 2015 2015 Apollo Apollo The New Yorker Vol 91 no 8 13 April 2015 pp 64 69 2016 The Arrangements A Work of Fiction The Arrangements A Work of Short Fiction The New York Times Book Review 3 July 2016 2020 Zikora Amazon Original Stories 62 See also edit nbsp Nigeria portal nbsp Biography portal nbsp Feminism portalList of Nigerian women writers Postcolonial feminist literatureReferences editNotes edit Adichie s name has been pronounced a variety of ways in English This transcription attempts to best approximate the Igbo pronunciation for English speaking readers Citations edit Schaub Michael 20 January 2015 National Book Critics Circle announces 2014 awards finalists Los Angeles Times Retrieved 23 April 2023 a b Brockes Emma 4 March 2017 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Can people please stop telling me feminism is hot The Guardian ISSN 0261 3077 Retrieved 22 August 2017 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Front Row 3 May 2013 BBC Radio 4 Retrieved 18 January 2014 a b c Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Biography List of Works Study Guides amp Essays GradeSaver gradesaver com a b c Luebering J E Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Biography Books amp Facts Encyclopedia Britannica Retrieved 19 May 2021 Nixon Rob 1 October 2006 A Biafran Story The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Archived from the original on 15 September 2012 Copnall James 16 December 2011 Steak Knife The Times Literary Supplement p 20 The London Conference 2018 Conference dinner Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Chatham House UK 2018 Archived from the original on 24 November 2020 a b Gerrard Nicci 9 May 2021 Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie review a moving account of a daughter s sorrow The Observer Retrieved 10 May 2021 a b Class of 2008 MacArthur Foundation MacArthur Foundation 2008 Archived from the original on 2 July 2013 Flood Alison 12 June 2018 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wins PEN Pinter prize The Guardian BBC 100 Women 2021 Who is on the list this year BBC News 7 December 2021 Retrieved 16 December 2022 84 reasons why you no fit ignore 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Guardian Retrieved 27 February 2021 Lozada Carlos 6 May 2021 In grieving for her father a novelist discovers the failure of words Washington Post Streeter Leslie Gray 16 May 2021 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie s Notes on Grief captures the bewildering messiness of loss review The Independent Otosirieze 20 September 2021 Cover Story Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Half of a Yellow Sun at 15 Her Private Losses and Public Evolution Open Country Mag Retrieved 6 June 2023 Otosirieze 4 April 2022 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie s Children s Picture Book Coming in 2023 Open Country Mag Retrieved 1 April 2023 Ibeh Chukwuebuka 7 April 2022 Chimamanda Adichie Debuts Children s Book Under the Pseudonym Nwa Grace James brittlepaper com Retrieved 1 April 2023 Olaopa Tunji 27 November 2022 An Encounter with Toyin Falola Between Celebration and Canonization of Intellectuals THISDAYLIVE www thisdaylive com Retrieved 4 December 2022 Franklin Ruth 19 May 2008 Chinua Achebe and the Great African Novel The New Yorker 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Harvard Gazettte Harvard University 19 April 2018 Retrieved 5 December 2022 Cho Serena 3 March 2019 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie GRD 08 to speak at Class Day yaledailynews com Meghan Markle puts Sinead Burke on the cover of Vogue s September issue The Irish Times 29 July 2019 Retrieved 31 July 2019 Africa Ventures 9 October 2019 Top 10 Nigerians in Africa Report s 100 most influential Africans Ventures Africa Retrieved 5 January 2021 Hubbard Ladee 10 May 2019 Power to define yourself The diaspora of female black voices TLS Adichie Chimamanda Ngozi 10 September 2020 Notes on Grief The New Yorker Further reading editErnest N Emenyonu ed A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie James Currey Boydell and Brewer 2017 ISBN 978 1847011633 Ojo Akinleye Ayinuola Discursive Construction of Sexuality and Sexual Orientations in Chimamanda Adichie s Americanah Ibadan Journal of English Studies 7 2018 543 560 224 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 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