Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
15 September 1977 – present
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian writer whose novels include Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah. Raised in the university town of Nsukka, she moved to the United States for her studies and later divided her time between Nigeria and the United States. Her essays and talks, among them We Should All Be Feminists, have been widely translated and adapted.
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Life events
She was the fifth of six children in an Igbo family and grew up in Nsukka.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe spent about a year and a half in the programme at Nsukka before leaving for the United States.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe left Nigeria at nineteen, studying first at Drexel University in Philadelphia and then at Eastern Connecticut State University.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe received a bachelor's degree in communication and political science.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe novel won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe completed the degree in Baltimore, Maryland.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe novel, set during the Nigerian Civil War, was published in 2006 and later adapted for film.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe received the fellowship shortly after completing a master's degree in African studies at Yale University.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe talk was published as a book-length essay in 2014 and sampled in popular music.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe novel, which follows a Nigerian woman's years in the United States, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.
Source: en.wikipedia.org