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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 am a bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to black women's hair. Hair is hair - yet also about larger ques…”Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- “The language of marriage is often a language of ownership, not a language of partnership.”Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Morality: more sayings
- “What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show…”Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- “God gives out good gifts of wisdom, talent, beauty, and skill 'graciously'--that is, in a completely unmerite…”Timothy J. Keller
- “I don’t care what your excuse is, I don’t care what you think God told you to do, if you are in the business…”Michael Grant
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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