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born 1977 Nigeria
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born 15 September, 1977) is a Nigerian author and activist. She was described in The Times Literary Supplement as "the most prominent" of a "procession of critically acclaimed young anglophone authors that is succeeding in attracting a new generation of readers to African literature."
Nigeria Academics Activists Authors Educators Also known as: Americanah
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I’m a writer and I think that freedom of speech is essential if we are going to have literature.
"People have crushes on priests all the time, you know. It’s exciting to have to deal with God as a rival."
Purple Hibiscus (2003)
Gender is not an easy conversation to have. For both men and women, to bring up gender, sometimes encounters almost immediate resistance.
I don't think there's an English word I dislike more than "emasculation."
Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture.
A man who would be intimidated by me is exactly the kind of man I would have no interest in.
Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing.
Americanah (2013)
I was a happy African feminist who does not hate men and who likes lip gloss and who wears high-heels for herself but not for men.
“Feminism for me is about justice; it’s about the idea that all human beings are equal… Feminism just means equality of opportunity.”
Notes on Grief (2021)
Imagine what the Standard would be if we were all quiet.’
Purple Hibiscus (2003)
Morality, as well as the sense of taste, is relative.’
Purple Hibiscus (2003)
If you are the breadwinner in your relationship with a man, you have to pretend that you're not, especially in public; otherwise you will emasculate him.
“There are two answers to the things they will teach you about our land: the real answer and the answer you give in school to pass. You must read books and learn both answers.”
Notes on Grief (2021)
We have evolved. But our ideas of gender have not evolved very much.
We Should All Be Feminists (2014)
“I am not apologetic for being a Nigerian. I won’t apologise for it; it’s who and what I am.”
Notes on Grief (2021)
How is it that the world keeps going, breathing in and out unchanged, while in my soul there is a permanent scattering?
Notes on Grief (2021)
The best feminist I know is my brother Kenny. He's also a kind, good-looking, lovely man, and he's very masculine. Thank you.
"Masculinity is a hard, small cage, and we put boys inside this cage."
I know young women who are under so much pressure from family, from friends, even from work to get married, and they're pushed to make terrible choices.
Symptoms can mean nothing if a mind just cannot.
Zikora (2020)
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