So much so that she wrote a novel about it entitled Half of a Yellow Sun, which was released in 2006. She has published a short story collection ( The Thing Around Your Neck), two book-length essays ( We Should All Be Feminists, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions), a memoir ( Notes on Grief ), and three novels ( Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun, Americanah) as of to date.Ĭhimamanda Ngozi Adichie wasn’t alive during the Nigerian Civil War (also known as the Biafran War) and didn’t personally experience it, but it still tremendously affected her and her family’s lives. It was during this time period that Adichie became passionate about writing and decided to pursue writing as a career. She also earned a master’s degree in creative writing at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland (“Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie” 2018). She earned a bachelor’s degree from there with a major in political science and a minor in communication (Mullane, 2014). She eventually moved from Nigeria and immigrated to the United States when she was a teenager to attend Eastern Connecticut State University in Willimantic, Connecticut (“Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie” 2018). Adiche grew up with a bilingual education in English and Igbo respectively (Mullane, 2014). She and her family moved to the city of Nsukka when she was little so that her father could work at the University of Nigeria as a professor and pro-vice-chancellor, and so that her mother could work there as a registrar (Mullane, 2014). Adichie was born on Septemin Enugu, Nigeria. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is one of the most acclaimed and prominent contemporary Nigerian authors working today.

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