Chimamanda Adichie during a recent interview,

“Writing a novel is an emotionally exhausting experience, when writing about the Biafran it’s very normal to fall into despair. Writing is a process of recalling history, I usually cry while writing.”Her face lights up when talking about young writers in Nigeria, “People in Nigeria are writing a lot of fiction, non-fiction, there’s lot of writing going on and a lot more publishing going on, it’s all very exciting.”

“Being a female writer comes with a lot of baggage but it doesn’t make me stop, I want to challenge those assumption- a small girl can write a political history,” she says with a fiercely intelligent look in her eyes."

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