Poetry as we know it is evolving. What really is poetry? How should a poem be structured? What rules should a poet follow? I personally think there is no rule as to what a poem should look like. Poetry should…
…Including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. For the Marie Claire’s special immigration report to celebrate the talents and contributions of women with roots in foreign lands… OCCUPATION: Writer. BEST KNOWN FOR: Purple Hibiscus (2003); Half of a Yellow Sun (2006); Americanah (2013),…
Sefi Atta, author of EVERYTHING GOOD WILL COME recently announced the release of her new book on her Facebook Page. She wrote: Here she is, Drama Queen, 8/18/18! It is January 1976, and 12-year-old Timi is about to turn 13….
I enjoyed reading this article on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in NEWYORK TIMES. I loved that it opened with Eghosa Imasuen’s story. A story of his mother and his struggle with his own writing – Eghosa is the author of FINE…
At the Stockholm Forum on Gender Equality, held 15-17 April, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talked about “a powerful man in the media” who sexually harassed her in 1994. Below is the full transcript : When I was 17 years old, I…
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s AMERICANAH has been selected by the New York Times’s staff book critics as one of “15 remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century.” This list of…
We Should All Be Feminists Extract – culled from 4thEstate. What does “feminism” mean today? In We Should All Be Feminists, this personal, eloquently argued essay, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century, one…
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was was a guest at a global ideas event hosted by the French government called “La Nuit Des Idees” (A Night of Ideas). In the interview, she was asked if there were linraries (book shops) in her…
By Oyin Oludipe Not long ago, it was reported that one president—a flawless depiction, by the way, of what our generation has devolved into—uttered something about African nations and shitholes. The aggregate African response? Flames and flames of ire. For…
If I could describe Chika with one word it would be; KIND. Chika is Kind. And that was why I was not surprised when his reply to one of the questions was – Be Kind Always. To yourself and to…
