Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

As her subjects have expanded, her audience has, too, but visibility has its drawbacks. Larissa MacFarquhar writes.

For author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the lively, family-filled Christmases of her childhood in Nigeria will always hold the most magic

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Controversy has erupted over both Adichie's views on gender and her argument that social media has become a breeding ground for toxicity

Some years ago, at one of my reading events in Lagos, a young man in the audience raised his hand to ask me a question. His question was: “Are you an African Writer?” Now at first glance this is a particularly peculiar question. I was born and raised in Nigeria, I wrote a novel about a central moment in Nigerian history. I speak Igbo, one of the indigenous Nigerian languages.

10th ANNIVERSARY EDITION - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A modern classic about star-crossed lovers that explores questions of race and being Black in America--and the search for what it means to call a place home. - From the award-winning author of We Should All Be Feminists and Half of a Yellow Sun - WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR "An expansive, epic love story."--O, The Oprah Magazine Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful…

She is the rare novelist to become a public intellectual — as well as a defining voice on race and gender for the digital age.

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