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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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Feminism: more sayings
- “To understand feminism it implies one has to necessarily understand sexism.”bell hooks
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- “the only thing required to be a woman is to identifyas one.- period, end of story.”Amanda Lovelace
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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