Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

As her subjects have expanded, her audience has, too, but visibility has its drawbacks. Larissa MacFarquhar writes.

“I want to tell the truth. That’s where my storytelling comes from. My feminism comes from somewhere else: acute dissatisfaction.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s new work is not a children’s story. It’s about children — daughters, specifically. Adichie prefaces the book (addressed to the mothers of...

The Nigerian literary rock star talks feminism & fighting back

“I mostly read poetry,” she says, “as a way of immersing myself in language, of luring back my own words.”

The Nigerian literary rock star talks feminism & fighting back

Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.

Internationally acclaimed author and renowned feminist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie delivered the second UCT VC’s Open Lecture for the year.

Adichie has written novels, plays essays, and memoirs. Her acclaimed novel Americanah was based on her own experiences of encountering racism for the first time after moving from Nigeria to America for university. She discusses race, diversity, and feminism in her work and has given TED talks on these topics, with the 2012 talk We Should All Be Feminists being adapted into a book later.

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