Introducing Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda
Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian author whose works include novels, short stories
and works of non-fiction. She was born
on September 15, 1977 in Enugu, Nigeria. She was the fifth of six children of
her parents. In her early days, she was highly influenced by the fellow Nigerian
author Chinua Achebe, more specifically by his work Things Fall Apart. In her
works, she extensively deals with the Nigerian Civil War or the infamous
Biafran War. Her novel Purple Hibiscus received the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize
in 2005 for Best First Book (Africa) and that year’s Commonwealth Writers’
Prize for Best First Book (overall). It was also short-listed for the 2004
Orange Prize. She has also done a series of famous TED Talks including The
Danger of a Single Story and We Should All Be Feminists.
Introducing briefly her major works:
1) Purple Hibiscus: A novel narrating the coming of age story of a girl named
Cambili. She lives with her religious father Eugene and mother Beatrice. The
novel starts with a quote from Things Fall Apart.
2) Half
of a Yellow Sun: The novel extensively deals with the Biafran War. The novel
narrates the story of a thirteen year old boy, Ugou who lives with a professor
named Odenigbo. Ugou later turns into a killing machine of the Biafran War.
3) The Thing Around Your Neck: A collection of short stories.
4) Americanah: Story of a New Jersey based African blogger Isemelu who writes
about racism on her blog.
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the video to watch Adichie’s TED Talk We Should All Be Feminists
Click
the video to watch Adichie’s TED Talk The Danger of a Single Story
(This Weekly Post has been contributed by Rajarshi Nath, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Furkating College.)
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