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978-0-307-37523-0. The Thing Around Your Neck is a short-story collection by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, first published in April 2009 by Fourth Estate in the UK and by Knopf in the US. It received many positive reviews, including: "She makes storytelling seem as easy as birdsong" (Daily Telegraph); [1] "Stunning.
In 2009, Adichie delivered a TED Talk entitled "The Danger of a Single Story." [ 165 ] In the talk Adichie expressed her concern that accepting one version of a story perpetrates myths and stereotypes [ 85 ] because it fails to recognise the complexities of human life and situations. [ 166 ]
Audio from Adichie's talk was included in Beyoncé's 2013 song "Flawless".Adichie was credited with a featured role on the track. [5] Adichie has largely remained silent about her feelings on Beyoncé's use of her speech, but in a 2016 interview in the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant, while acknowledging that with the song Beyoncé had reached many people who otherwise might never have heard the ...
As a communications professional who thinks often about the contours of political narratives, this episode made me think of Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s TED Talk on “the danger ...
Americanah. Americanah is a 2013 novel by the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, for which Adichie won the 2013 U.S. National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. [1] Americanah tells the story of a young Nigerian woman, Ifemelu, who immigrates to the United States to attend university. The novel traces Ifemelu's life in both countries ...
78988623. Half of a Yellow Sun is a novel by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Published in 2006 by 4th Estate in London, the novel tells the story of the Biafran War [2] through the perspective of the characters Olanna, Ugwu, and Richard. It received critical acclaim and won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2007.
The Thing Around Your Neck. Categories: Short story collections by writer. Books by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Purple Hibiscus. Purple Hibiscus is a novel by Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, published on 30 October 2003 by Algonquin Books. Narrated in the first person, Kambili Achike, the central character struggles to find her voice as the daughter of a wealthy, devout Catholic businessman, Eugene who violently abuses his family.