In 2018, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie announced the return of her annual workshop, after its one-year hiatus in 2017 necessitated by a lack of sponsorship. The workshop changed its name from Farafina Trust Creative Writing Workshop to Purple Hibiscus Trust Creative Writing Workshop, named after her debut novel. The change of name was explainable, as Chimamanda […]
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie & Sefi Atta Among Guests for the 2019 Felabration, in Memory of Fela Kuti
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Sefi Atta will be among the guests at the 2019 Felabration, the annual music festival in memory of the legendary Nigerian musician Fela Kuti. The week-long event, to be held from 14-20 October at the New Afrika Shrine, Ikeja, will also be graced by the Ugandan pop star-turned-politician Bobi Wine, the […]
As Americanah TV Series Goes to HBO, Actress Stella Damasus Suggests Slight on Nollywood & Chika Unigwe Responds
The Americanah TV series adaptation, starring Lupita Nyong’o and written by Danai Gurira, has been ordered by HBO Max. The 10-episode show will also have Gurira as showrunner. Based on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s third novel, which won the National Book Critics’ Circle Award for Fiction in 2014 and has been suggested to be her “signature […]
Twelve African Writers on the Legacy of Toni Morrison, for Decades the Greatest Living Writer
Toni Morrison, for decades the greatest living writer, passed on at 88, on 6 August. We have compiled tributes to her, published on other sites, by Namwali Serpell, Diana Evans, Bernardine Evaristo, Chigozie Obioma, Ben Okri, Aminatta Forna, Afua Hirsch, Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, Margaret Busby, Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Laila Lalami. For […]
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Among 15 Women on the Cover of British Vogue’s September Issue, Guest-Edited by The Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle
We knew this association was bound to happen soon. News came days ago that The Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle is guest-editing the September issue of British Vogue, the most important issue of fashion magazines, making her the issue’s first guest editor in the magazine’s 103-year-old history. Turning down a chance to appear on the […]
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