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Purple Hibiscus, is a novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, first published in the United State by Algonquin, an imprint of Workman Publishing Company in 2003. It recounts the story of Kambili Achike, a young teenager who struggles in the hands of her father Eugene, a rich businessman and devout Catholic. He violently abuses his family and the ...
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 writer 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).
A stylized image of the hibiscus flower was used as a logo of Air Polynésie. Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie named her first novel Purple Hibiscus after the delicate flower. The bark of the hibiscus contains strong bast fibres that can be obtained by letting the stripped bark set in the sea to let the organic material rot away ...
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"Zikora" is a short story (2020) written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigerian author of various other literary works, including Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun, and Americanah. "Zikora" is an engaging story about a woman who reflects on the current state of her life as she is about to have a baby without a spouse. [1]
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She published Purple Hibiscus in 2003. Her father's story during the war supplied material for her second novel Half of a Yellow Sun. Citing Chinua Achebe and Buchi Emecheta as inspiration, Adichie's style juxtaposes Western and African influences, with particular influence from the Igbo culture. Most of her works, including her writing and ...
"Cell One" (first published in The New Yorker), in which a spoilt brother and son of a professor is sent to a Nigerian prison and ends up in the infamous Cell One. "Imitation" (first published in Other Voices) is set in Philadelphia and concerns Nkem, a young mother whose art-dealer husband visits only two months a year.