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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born September 15, 1977, Enugu, Nigeria) is a Nigerian writer whose second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), gained international acclaim for its depiction of the devastation caused by the Nigerian Civil War. Her novels, short stories, and nonfiction explore the intersections of identity.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (/ ˌtʃɪməˈmɑːndə əŋˈɡoʊzi əˈdiːtʃi.eɪ / ⓘ [a]; born 15 September 1977) is a Nigerian author who is regarded as a central figure in postcolonial feminist literature. She is the author of the award-winning novels Purple Hibiscus (2003), Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) and Americanah (2013).
About - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. She has delivered two landmark TED talks: her 2009 TED Talk The Danger of A Single Stor y and her 2012 TEDx Euston talk We Should All Be Feminists, which started a worldwide conversation about feminism and was published as a book in 2014.
As the author of the highly-praised Purple Hibiscus (2003) and Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s success has been celebrated by the literary establishment. These novels are set in Nigeria and separately reveal her deftness as a storyteller.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, (born September 15, 1977, Enugu, Nigeria), Nigerian author whose work drew extensively on the Biafran war in Nigeria during the late 1960s. Early in life Adichie, the fifth of six children, moved with her parents to Nsukka, Nigeria.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Novelist. chimamanda.com. TED Speaker. Inspired by Nigerian history and tragedies all but forgotten by recent generations of westerners, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novels and stories are jewels in the crown of diasporan literature. Why you should listen.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a Humanist On and Off the Page She is the rare novelist to become a public intellectual — as well as a defining voice on race and gender for the digital age.
Chimamanda Adichie is a prominent novelist and short story writer who illuminates the complexities of human experience. She is widely appreciated for her stark yet balanced depiction of events in the post-colonial era.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Nigeria in 1977 and is the author of two novels, Purple Hibiscus (2003), which was shortlisted for the Orange Fiction Prize and awarded the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book (2005), and Half of a Yellow Sun (2006). Ms. Adichie currently divides her time between Nigeria and the U.S.
Adiche, the internationally celebrated novelist, moved to the U.S. from Nigeria, and some of her most powerful writing––in her 2013 novel Americanah, for instance––explores what it means to be African, and what it means to be African American, with extraordinary depth.