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The Danger of a Single Story" is one of Adichie's TED Talks. [ 12 ] Adichie says that "The Headstrong Historian" was written in an effort to "imagine the life of [her] great-grandmother" after first reading Things Fall Apart , which she saw as a representation of her "great-grandfather's life".
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).
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 ...
Days after The New York Times named Americanah to its best books of 2013 list, Beyoncé also signaled her admiration of Adichie, sampling Adichie's TED Talk "We should all be feminists" on the song "***Flawless"; sales of Americanah soared and as of December 23, 2013, the book climbed to the number 179 spot on Amazon.com's list of its 10,000 ...
(Reuters) - Apple's board of directors recommended investors vote against a shareholder proposal to abolish the company's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs, according to a proxy ...
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 ...
Former Vice President Kamala Harris gave a rousing speech at the 56th NAACP Image Awards on Saturday night at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in California, where she accepted the organization’s ...
Meet the "Voice" coaches for Season 27 who are stepping into the big red chairs — Michael Bublé, John Legend, Kelsea Ballerini and Adam Levine.