Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nigerian writer and public speaker
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian writer whose work spans fiction, nonfiction and lectures. She wrote We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions.
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Nigerian Born 1977 in Enugu, Nigeria
About Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born on 15 September 1977 into an Igbo family in Enugu, Nigeria, and grew up in Nsukka. She studied medicine at the University of Nigeria for about eighteen months, then left at 19 to continue her studies in the United States. Her US studies included Drexel University, Eastern Connecticut State University, Johns Hopkins University and Yale University. She began writing during her university years. Her novels include Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah, and she has also published the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck. Her books can be read in over 55 languages. She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2008. In 2012 she gave a talk titled "We Should All Be Feminists", which came out as a standalone essay in 2014. Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions is another of her essays.