Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichieis a Nigerian novelist, nonfiction writer and short story writer. A MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, Adichie has been called "the most prominent" of a "procession of critically acclaimed young anglophone authors is succeeding in attracting a new generation of readers to African literature"...
NationalityNigerian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth15 September 1977
CountryNigeria
strange dissonance nigeria
There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria.
girl father moving
I have my father's lopsided mouth. When I smile, my lips slope to one side. My doctor sister calls it my cerebral palsy mouth. I am very much a daddy's girl, and even though I would rather my smile wasn't crooked, there is something moving for me about having a mouth exactly like my father's.
details fiction stories
I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external, the kind of fiction that Jane Smiley nicely describes as 'first and foremost about how individuals fit, or don't fit, into their social worlds.'
racism cookies reducing
Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.
space deserve
You deserve to take up space.
people novel one-thing
Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing.
stories dependent
How [stories] are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told — are really dependent on power.
thinking rooms stills
And it's wrong of you to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It's possible to love something and still condescend to it.
feeling-stuck yellow-sun
Your life belongs to you and you alone.
I was stained by failure.
today problem gender
Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better.
where-we-come
Our histories cling to us. We are shaped by where we come from.
america choices black
Dear Non-American Black, when you make the choice to come to America, you become black. Stop arguing. Stop saying I'm Jamaican or I'm Ghanaian. America doesn't care.
knowing would-be frightened
Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know.