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About Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nigerian writer
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian writer known for fiction, nonfiction, and lectures. She is a leading voice in postcolonial feminist literature. Her work crosses genres, but remains closely associated with questions of gender, power, identity, and the legacies of colonial history. She has become widely recognised for writing that speaks to those themes with clarity and force.
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- “I think white women need to wake up and say, 'Not all women are white,' three times in front of the mirror.”Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- “That a woman claims not to be feminist does not diminish the necessity of feminism. If anything, it makes us…”Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- “She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affe…”Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- “A man who would be intimidated by me is exactly the kind of man I would have no interest in.”Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Books by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Americanah
2017
Half of a Yellow Sun
2006
The Thing Around Your Neck
2009
We Should All Be Feminists
2015
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
2018