Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: A Literary Star Is Born

The young African writer has become a household name.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - An Igbo writer born in the town of Enugu, Nigeria, 36-year-old Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been heralded as one of the most prominent young authors by a number of esteemed outlets, including BBC and The New Yorker. Her acclaimed debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, which she subsequently won for her second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun. The former novel was recently adapted for film, starring fellow Nigerian Chiwetel Ejiofor.(Photo: Jerod Harris/Getty Images)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Speaks out - Award-winning Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie reportedly said she opposes Western military intervention against Boko Haram. A foreign attack on her homeland would be counterproductive, according to the Americanah novelist. “Now we have American drones helping us in this forest and even the French have sent in people. Shouldn’t they be fixing their own economy?” she said. “We can solve our own damn problems."(Photo:  PA PHOTOS /LANDOV)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - The career of Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie reached astronomical heights these past few years. Her latest novel Americanah, a National Book Critics Circle Award winner, centers on a pair of Nigerian lovers whose adventures take them from Nigeria to Britain to America. "Race is such a strange construct,” Adichie told NPR "because you have to learn what it means to be black in America.”(Photo: David Levenson/Getty Images)A Double Master - Next on Adichie’s list was a master’s degree in creative writing from Johns Hopkins University. She then served as a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University in 2005 and earned another MA in African Studies from Yale University in 2008.(Photo: WENN.com)

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Literary Superstar - From winning one of the most prestigious American literary prizes to being sampled by Beyoncé, Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been catapulted into international stardom in a matter of months. Learn more about Adichie’s Afropolitan upbringing and groundbreaking work. – Patrice Peck (Photo: Jerod Harris/Getty Images)

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