At the Stockholm Forum on Gender Equality, held 15-17 April, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talked about “a powerful man in the media” who sexually harassed her in 1994. (Read the full transcription below). She was only 17 then, had just finished poetry collection she describes as “really bad poetry,” and had taken it to the man […]
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Adichie to Receive Doctorate from Duke University, as Americanah Is Listed in The New York Times’ Century-Defining Novels
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie will be receiving an honourary PhD from Duke University on May 13, alongside five other dignitaries: General Motors Chairman and CEO Mary Barra; former Durham Mayor William Bell; Smithsonian National Museum lead architect Phil Freelon; Harvard Medical School professor Dr. William Kaelin; and attorney and community leader Russell M. Robinson II. The awards […]
“Black Panther” Actress Danai Gurira Joins Production Team for “Americanah” Miniseries
Following news that Lupita Nyong’o’s adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah would now be a miniseries as opposed to the initial plans for a film, Zimbabwean actress-cum-screenwriter Danai Gurira has signed on to the project. She will be joining her Black Panther co-star as the screenplay writer. This will be the third collaboration between the two stars, […]
EVENT | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Hillary Clinton for Conversation at 2018 PEN World Voices Festival
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie will be in conversation with Hillary Clinton at the 2018 PEN World Voices Festival, where Clinton will be delivering the 12th Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture on April 22. Their dialogue—“about the future of women and girls around the world”—will take place after the Lecture, which Adichie herself delivered in 2015. […]
Kenyan Poet Shailja Patel Responds to Chimamanda Adichie’s Comments on Post-Colonial Theory
Last week, during her 25 January The Night of Ideas interview in France, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie sparked controversy with her comments on post-colonial theory. When asked her thoughts on it, she said: Post-colonial theory? I don’t know what it means. I think it’s something that professors made up because they needed to get jobs. On Twitter, […]
Margaret Busby-Edited Anthology to Feature 200 Female Writers Including Adichie, Aminatta Forna, Bernadine Evaristo, Imbolo Mbue, Warsan Shire, Zadie Smith
Britain’s first black female publisher Margaret Busby will edit a new anthology that would feature 200 female African writers across generations. Titled New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of 20th- and 21st-Century Writing by Women of African Descent, it will be a sequel to Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by […]
For Her Farafina Workshop, Adichie Will Be the Second African to Receive the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award
In 2018, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie will be the second African to receive the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award, following Kwame Dawes. The Ghanaian poet and founder of Africa Poetry Book Fund (APBF) was honoured in 2012 for being “a tireless champion for poetry, the literary arts, and community,” whose “efforts have helped facilitate […]
I hold a doctorate in English from Duke University and recently joined the Marquette University English faculty as an Assistant Professor. I love teaching African fiction and contemporary British novels. Brittle Paper is the virtual space/station where I play and experiment with ideas on how to reinvent African fiction and literary culture.
