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Kambili Achike: Kambili is the protagonist of Purple Hibiscus.She is a female character and the novel's narrator. A 15 year-old teenager from the Achike household: brother Jaja; mother, Beatrice; father, Eugene Achike, her childhood was surrounded by her father's strict religious belief- catholicism and violent physical abuse.
Grisham describes Kambili as "a 15 year-old African girl who lives with her mother, brother, and father, Eugene." And would later assert that "her father plays a dominant role in her life, plans her schedule down to every last minute, and demands absolute adherence to his extreme rules of Catholicism."
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (/ ˌ tʃ ɪ m ə ˈ m ɑː n d ə ə ŋ ˈ ɡ oʊ z i ə ˈ d iː tʃ i. eɪ / ⓘ [a]; born 15 September 1977) is a Nigerian author and activist. Regarded as a central figure in postcolonial feminist literature, she is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus (2003), Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) and Americanah (2013).
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