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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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My father told jokes and laughed and charmed everyone, and broke things and walked on the shards without knowing he had broken things.
Zikora (2020)
"Of course I am not worried about intimating men. The type of man who will be intimidated is exactly the type of man I have no interest in."
“Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.”
He grew up with his dreams already dreamt for him
Zikora (2020)
He would kill you, but he would do it slowly
Zikora (2020)
"The truth has become an insult."
Half of a yellow sun (2006)
"The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story."
"Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she often felt around him."
Half of a yellow sun (2006)
"Eugene has to stop doing God's job. God is big enough to do his own job. If God will judge our father for choosing to follow the way of our ancestors, then let God do the judging, not Eugene."
Purple Hibiscus (2003)
What did “It’s time to get married” mean, anyway? Why did she have to marry at all?
Zikora (2020)
A woman at a certain age who is unmarried, our society teaches her to see it as a deep, personal failure. And a man at a certain age who is unmarried, we just think he hasn't come around to making his pick.
A fog blanketed me, a kind of deadness. I didn’t cry; crying seemed too ordinary for this moment.
Zikora (2020)
"And even though I helped to clean the wounded, I had never taken anyone into my room.But I took this girl into my room.Her name was chinasa."
You can’t nice your way to being loved.
Zikora (2020)
Her silence bruised the air between us.
Zikora (2020)
The frequent flare of sad longing.
Zikora (2020)
There are many people in Western democracies today who will not speak loudly about issues they care about because they are afraid of what I will call, ‘social censure’ – vicious retaliation, not from the government, but from other citizens.
Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.
We do a great disservice to boys on how we raise them; we stifle the humanity of boys. We define masculinity in a very narrow way. Masculinity becomes this hard, small cage and we put boys inside the cage.
I have beautiful twin nieces who are fifteen and live in Lagos. If they had been born a hundred years ago they would have been taken away and killed. Because it was our culture, it was our culture to kill twins.
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