Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian writer, whose works include fiction, nonfiction, and lectures. She is widely recognised as a central figure in postcolonial feminist literature.
Adichie at the reading and signing of her work Americanah in Berlin, Germany (2014)
Adichie at the speaker's podium during the Congreso Futuro [es], Santiago, Chile, in 2020
Adichie on the cover of Ms. in 2014
Adichie on the Concepción Feminist Mural in Madrid, Spain
Half of a Yellow Sun is a 2006 novel by Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Set in Nigeria in the 1960s, the story follows Ugwu, a teenage houseboy who has moved from his village to work in a un
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
…Agency to represent her. Purple Hibiscus has been translated into more than forty languages. After her first novel, Adichie began writing her second one Half of a Yellow Sun, on which she worked for four years. Because the novel expands on the Biafran conflict during the Nigerian Civil War, Adichie employed her father's…
First edition cover, 2006