Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: a storyteller championing Black voices
Born to Igbo parents in Enugu, Nigeria in 1977, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up on campus at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where her father was a professor and her mother was the first female Registrar. She studied medicine for a year then left for the US to study communication, political science, and later creative writing and African history. Her academic career blossomed, and she has been showered with honorary degrees from universities as far afield as Johns Hopkins University and the University of Johannesburg.
A prominent promoter of Black voices, Adichie has attracted international attention with her 2013 TEDx talk “We Should All Be Feminists,” (named after her book of the same name) which Beyoncé later sampled on her song “Flawless” before going on to champion the vital roles of storytellers, self-expression, and intellectual freedom for a healthy society.
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Half of a yellow sun 820.8 ADI
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