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“... one of the main reasons for the country’s continued backwardness, in my estimation. 2012, Chimamanda Ngozi...”

“... Chimamanda NgoziAdichie’s first novel, Purple Hibiscus (2004), was ostensibly a coming of age story. A teenage girl is abused by her repressive Catholic father and, following a political upheaval, moves in with her aunt, at whose house she has a fuller life and discovers her own sexuality ...”

“... to appear on festival line-ups and reading lists alongside Viet Thanh Nguyen, Mohsin Hamid and Chimamanda NgoziAdichie. A similar moment of celebrity is the engine of God 99. The book is a series of short stories, framed as interviews between the narrator (also called Hassan) and other Iraqis, most of them ...”

“... the Zimbabwean NoViolet Bulawayo and the Nigerians Chika Unigwe, E.C. Osondu, Helon Habila and Chimamanda NgoziAdichie. To these writers politics and the vicissitudes of nation-building are less compelling subjects than the everyday task of self-individuation. Their cultural reference points are eclectic and ...”

“... who leaves the story in mid air. Fiction of a higher order is offered by the Nigerian writer Chimamanda NgoziAdichie, whose first book was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and longlisted for the Booker. Her novel begins with a reference to Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe’s great chronicle of dispossession and ...”

“... back in Kenya. He had published in South Africa and was meeting other African writers, including Chimamanda NgoziAdichie, in a flourishing digital commons where novelists, poets and essayists were exchanging drafts. In 2002, he took a shot at the Caine Prize – the African Booker – digging out ‘Discovering ...”

“... count?’ These are questions we would all benefit from thinking through with care. Yet, much as Chimamanda NgoziAdichie provoked anger on the left by appealing for a more complicated interpretation of trans and cis-gendered women’s experience, Smith was attacked for failing to toe the rhetorical line. Her essay ...”

“... Here, Bulawayo joins the long list of African novelists – Sembène, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Chimamanda NgoziAdichie, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor and others – who argue that the project of nation-building or reconciliation requires a reimagining of the past. Destiny finishes her book, but the story doesn’t end ...”

“... in 1979.Destination Biafra, the novel that Busby cut in half before publication in 1982 and Chimamanda NgoziAdichie said was ‘very important’ to the genesis of Half of a Yellow Sun, features Emecheta’s ‘dream woman’, Debbie Ogedemgbe. Ogedemgbe, the Oxford-educated daughter of a corrupt ...”

“... published hers, Destination Biafra, in 1982. And recently there have been several more, including Chimamanda NgoziAdichie’s stupendous Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), which has a bibliography of thirty books about the war.Chigozie Obioma’s acknowledgments are more selective, just a dozen or so titles. But he has ...”