Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s desk diary will be published by Fourth Estate, the HarperCollins imprint. The book, titled We Should All Be Feminists: The Desk Diary, is an illustrated weekly planner and contains some of Adichie’s most powerful and inspiring quotes, as well as an exclusive introductory essay. The Bookseller reports that Fourth Estate publishing director […]
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Mourning, Feeling, & Coping During Coronavirus Lockdown
Hours ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie shared a post on Facebook mourning her recently late aunt. In it she details her coping tips during this lockdown, how she deals with anxiety, fights paranoia, and allows herself her fair share of worry especially as her husband is a doctor who has diagnosed two cases of Coronavirus. She […]
Before Purple Hibiscus, a Judging Panel Kept Chimamanda Adichie Off a Shortlist because Her Entry Wasn’t African Enough
In a new interview with the American magazine Newsweek, Biyi Bandele made the kind of revelation that will surely send people Google-searching. The Nigerian novelist and filmmaker—author of Burma Boy (2007) and director of Half of a Yellow Sun (2013)—was asked a variation of that very tired question: Whom do you write for? And he […]
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Shares ThisDay’s Woman of the Decade Award with UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has received a “Woman of the Decade” award from the Nigerian newspaper THISDAY on the paper’s 25th anniversary. She was selected as the editors’ choice, while the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General and former Federal Minister of Environment Amina J. Mohammed was named the people’s choice. Adichie was presented the award by the […]
Photos | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Is the Inaugural Recipient of the ILFU Festival’s Belle van Zuylen ring
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been honoured with the inaugural Belle van Zuylen ring, an award by the ILFU International Literature Festival in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The recognition, named after the Dutch writer Belle Van Zuylen, is for her engagement with the world and its thought patterns. At the event, she delivered the Belle van Zuylen […]
Lupita as Ifemelu, Uzo Aduba as Aunty Uju, Zachary Momoh as Obinze: Here Are the Actors Attached to the Americanah TV Series
Since Lupita Nyong’o snapped the rights to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s signature novel Americanah, there has been increasing buzz on the status of the project, from David Oyelowo’s initial attachment to play Obinze to its switch from feature film to TV series to the announcement of Danai Gurira as showrunner to the Nollywood controversy that trailed its […]
Alain Mabanckou, Chimamanda Adichie, Isha Sesay, Leila Slimani, Afua Hirsch & Goretti Kyomuhendo Among New African’s 100 Most Influential Africans of 2019
Leading politics and culture magazine New African has released its annual list of “The 100 Most Influential Africans,” and on it this year are six authors: Congo’s Alain Mabanckou, UCLA literature professor and the author, most recently, of Black Moses; Nigeria’s Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who last month received a UN Global Leadership Award; Morocco’s Leila […]
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