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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."
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Jaja’s defiance seems like Ifeoma’s experimental purple hibiscus: rare, fragrant with the undertones of freedom, a different kind of freedom from the one the crowds waving green leaves chanted at Government Square after the coup. A freedom to be, to do.”
Purple Hibiscus (2003)
No , most are set in the U.S.—except for “Cell One” and “The Headstrong Historian.” I’ve written quite a bit about Nigerians in the U.S. When I set out to write about America, I didn’t feel called to do a novel. I like stories, the kind of prose that is in touch with poetry.
Notes on Grief (2021)
The person more likely to lead is not the physically stronger person, it is the more creative person, the more intelligent person, the more innovative person, and there are no hormones for those attributes. A man is as likely as a woman to be intelligent, to be creative, to be innovative. We have evolved; but it seems to me that our ideas of gender have not evolved.
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