Cameroonians in Rome denouncing the discrimination suffered by Cameroon’s Anglophone minority.CreditCreditPatrizia Cortellessa/Pacific Press, via LightRocket, via Getty Images Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie turned 41 on the 15th day of September and she had an article published in THE NEWYORK TIMES on…
I really enjoyed reading Like A Mule Bringing Ice-Cream To The Sun. I enjoyed it for so many reasons. First of all, it reminded me of one of my favourite series; This Is Us. It reminded me of the sheer…
In a phone conversation with Candice Carty-Williams, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie discusses, her books, race and womanhood. The article originally appeared in i-D’s The Earthwise Issue, no. 353, Fall 2018. Some of the interesting points we noted in the interview: 1)…
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…
