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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.
More from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (150 quotes) →Keep reading Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- “There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria.”Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- “Other men might respond by saying: Okay, this is interesting, but I don’t think like that. I don’t even think…”Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- “I own things I like, but nothing inanimate that I treasure in a deeply consuming way.”Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- “femelu could not understand this, her mother’s ability to tell herself stories about her reality that did not…”Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Feminism: more sayings
- “Misogyny, when expressed or explored by men, remains a timeless classic.”Maggie Nelson
- “The rise of feminist underpants is a weird twist on Karl Marx's theory of commodity fetishism, wherein consum…”Andi Zeisler
- “The laws of the solar system that previously only God had known could suddenly be read using scientific metho…”Katrine Marçal
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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