Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Buchi Emecheta OBE (born Florence Onyebuchi Emecheta [florens oɲebut͡ʃi emet͡ʃeta]; 21 July 1944 – 25 January 2017) was a Nigerian writer [1] who was the author of novels, plays, autobiography, and children's books.
The short stories also each work in harmonic nature to tell the stories of Nigerian women, life, and how they are raised. The short story in particular that incorporated gender norms of what a girl is expected to be compared to what she chooses to be is specifically explored in the story “Light” in which the father and mother cannot agree ...
This story became the leading title to the best selling anthology paperback of 1995 with the same title. Plot: Gerald Haskins and Walter Ramsbottom are friends and rivals since their common school days in Hull. Gerald steals Walter's fiancée Angela Bradbury and marries her.
It tells a love story that includes people from various regions and social classes of Nigeria, and how the war and encounters with refugees changed them. Half of a Yellow Sun won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2007. It received a mixed critical reception; reviewers generally praised Adichie's depictions of the Biafran War and the ...
The life-changing events of rape and abortion, which she has largely kept secret, have led Bolanle to choose to become the fourth wife of Baba Segi, a man she sees as plump, prosperous, kindly and undemanding. Her mother, who has worked hard to give her daughter the benefit of a university education, is furious at her decision.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie [b] (born 15 September 1977) is a Nigerian author. She has written three novels, two collections of short stories, one memoir, and many articles and short stories for many newspapers, magazines, and periodicals.
More recently, Queen Moremi: The Musical - a theatrical story of love, faith, honour and the ultimate sacrifice - has also been produced. Various public places are named after her in the contemporary Yorubaland region of Nigeria, such as Moremi High School and the female residence halls at the University of Lagos and Obafemi Awolowo University.