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5 works

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

West AfricaWest Africa / DiasporaContemporaryEssayFictionShort Stories
Half of a Yellow Sun
2006
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Set before, during, and after the Biafran War, the novel follows several characters whose lives are impacted by the Nigerian Civil War of the 1960s.

West AfricaFiction
Americanah
2013
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Ifemelu and Obinze's love story spanning Nigeria and America, exploring race, immigration, identity, and what it means to be Black in America versus Africa.

West Africa / DiasporaFiction
Purple Hibiscus
2003
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Coming-of-age story of Kambili, a 15-year-old girl in Nigeria, dealing with her authoritarian Catholic father and the country's political instability.

West AfricaFiction
We Should All Be Feminists
2014
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Adapted from Adichie's 2012 TEDx talk, this essay defines feminism for the 21st century from an African woman's perspective — personal, specific, and unapologetic.

West AfricaEssay
The Thing Around Your Neck
2009
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Twelve stories about Nigerians in Nigeria and America — an immigrant woman in Connecticut, a newlywed encountering her husband's family secrets, a woman searching for her coup-arrested father.

West AfricaShort Stories