Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie a renowned Nigerian novelist was born in Nigeria in 1977. She grew up in the university town of Nsukka, Enugu State where she attended primary and secondary schools, and briefly studied Medicine and Pharmacy. She then moved to the United States to attend college, graduating summa cum laude from Eastern Connecticut State University with a major in Communication and a minor in Political Science. She holds a Masters degree in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins and a Masters degree in African Studies from Yale University. She was a 2005-2006 Hodder Fellow at Princeton, where she taught introductory fiction. Chimamanda is the author of Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the 2007 Orange Prize For Fiction; and Purple Hibiscus, which won the 2005 Best First Book Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the 2004 Debut Fiction Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. In 2009, her collection of short stories, The Thing around Your Neck was published. She was named one of the twenty most important fiction writers today under 40 years old by The New Yorker and was recently the guest speaker at the 2012 annual commonwealth lecture. She featured in the April 2012 edition of Time Magazine, celebrated as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. She currently divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.
I love this and this is so true, in more ways than one ,thank you for sharing
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You are very welcome! I’m glad you like it. She is wonderful.
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Love this. Love Chimamanda! She is so inspiring. Thanks to my English lecturer who in 2009 introduced me to her by sharing her first TED talk entitled, “The Danger of a Single Story”. Thanks to you too for sharing 🙂
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Tricia..I’m glad you love her too. She is beautiful – in and out. Thank you so much for visiting my blog.
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A writer with some impressive qualifications and a fascinating career. I haven’t read any of her books, but I probably should.
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Me neither, not read any of her books yet, but I find her views fascinating. It would be worth reading her writing.
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