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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian author of fiction, non-fiction, poetry works, critiques, play, and children's fiction. She is primarily known for her works on postcolonial feminist literature. These include works set in Nigeria and Africa, standalone novels and short stories. Adichie came to critical attention with the publication of ...
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).
Half of a Yellow Sun is a 2006 novel by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. It is Adichie's second novel. The novel was first published in London by 4th Estate on 1 January 2006. The story, which is set in Nigeria in the 1960s, centers on Ugwu, who left his village to become a houseboy for a revolutionary and professor Odenigbo. Odenigbo ...
This article is about Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a Nigerian writer, novelist, poet, essayist and statesman. She mostly dominates the use of Igbo in some of her works, like Purple Hibiscus, Americanah, and so many. Relatively, the author has aired so many talks on education, fashion, and feminism. I started working on this article till it became ...
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.
(Part 5 of 6) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (@chimamanda_adichie) appears on the cover of T's Greats issue. In honor of the occasion, she wrote this story, "Janelle Asked to the Bedroom," exclusively ...
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.
Americanah is the third novel by Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.It was published on May 14, 2013, by Alfred A. Knopf.It won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 2013.