Birthday: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Turns 45 Today.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born 15 September 1977) is a Nigerian writer whose works range from novels to short stories to nonfiction. She was described in The Times Literary Supplement as "the most prominent" of a "procession of critically acclaimed young anglophone authors [which] is succeeding in attracting a new generation of readers to African literature", particularly in her second home, the United States.

Adichie, a feminist, has written the novels Purple Hibiscus (2003), Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), and Americanah (2013), the short story collection The Thing Around Your Neck (2009), and the book-length essay We Should All Be Feminists (2014). Her most recent books are Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (2017), Zikora (2020) and Notes on Grief (2021). In 2008, she was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant.

Early life, family, and education

Adichie was born in the city of Enugu in Nigeria, the fifth of six children in an Igbo family. She was raised in the university town of Nsukka in Enugu State. While she was growing up, her father, James Nwoye Adichie (1932–2020), worked as a professor of statistics at the University of Nigeria. Her mother, Grace Ifeoma (1942–2021), was the university's first female registrar. The family lost almost everything during the Nigerian Civil War, including both maternal and paternal grandfathers. Her family's ancestral village is in Abba in Anambra State.

Adichie completed her secondary education at the University of Nigeria Secondary School, Nsukka, where she received several academic prizes. She studied medicine and pharmacy at the University of Nigeria for a year and a half. During this period, she edited The Compass, a magazine run by the university's Catholic medical students. At the age of 19, Adichie left Nigeria for the United States to study communications and political science at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

She transferred to Eastern Connecticut State University (ECSU) to be near her sister Uche,who had a medical practice in Coventry, Connecticut. She received a bachelor's degree from ECSU, summa cum laude, in 2001.

In 2003, she completed a master's degree in creative writing at Johns Hopkins University. In 2008, she received a master of arts degree in African studies from Yale University.

Adichie was a Hodder fellow at Princeton University during the 2005–2006 academic year. In 2008, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She was awarded a 2011–2012 fellowship by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.

Personal life

In 2009, Adichie married Ivara Esege, a Nigerian doctor. In a July 2016 interview, she revealed that she had recently given birth to a daughter.

Adichie divides her time between the United States and Nigeria, where she teaches writing workshops.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimamanda_Ngozi_Adichie

How wonderful!

I'm a big fan of her books

Broke and wretched Nigerian girls forming feminists are looking up to her as their role model but they fail to understand that she's married and submissive to a gbola at home.

Happy birthday NG.

Gorgeous woman. Igbo Amaka!

Hbd Beautiful and intelligent woman

A great woman!

Zonefree:
Broke and wretched Nigerian girls forming feminists are looking up to her as their role model but they fail to understand that she's married and submissive to a gbola at home.

Happy birthday NG.

I swear..

African woman

Happy birthday

U just can't do without tribalism in ur entire life
& U people want to spoil vote for P.O with ur silly comments everywhere... Dey use tribal do u ni(Afishe ko gboogun)

Igbo women keeps making their people proud while our own Kemi Olunloyo keeps disgracing us.

Igbo women houses some of the most powerful and strong black women on earth, another tribe have their men prostrating and licking queen elizabeth ass

Happy birthday to you Great writer

HBD LLNP

Nwanyi maramma hbd llnp. You are not a role model to my type of person sha but you represent well. Nneoma

Beautiful and strong woman.
Keep doing marvellous things and holding up the nation's name up high.

Purple Hibiscus, the best book I've ever read.

Damnnn niggar

Happy birthday

Happy birthday... She's a wonderful writer...

Ada Biafra

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Birthday: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Turns 45 Today.



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimamanda_Ngozi_Adichie

woman no Dey fine finish if U reach down der u fit weak

Happy birthday Beautiful and Brainy Chimamanda

Happy Birthday Agu Nwanyi

Zonefree:
Broke and wretched Nigerian girls forming feminists are looking up to her as their role model but they fail to understand that she's married and submissive to a gbola at home.

Happy birthday NG.

Feminists are not broke it’s the reason they are independent and don’t need men for anything. You have problems with both dependent and independent women, wetin be the colour of your confusion?

Happy birthday ma, What a great doctor you are.

Remains me of her book "Half of a yellow Sun"

HBD madam Ngozi

GODPUNISHALABI:
Igbo women houses some of the most powerful and strong black women on earth, another tribe have their men prostrating and licking queen elizabeth ass

No need for this, man