Anne Giwa-Amu is a 59-year-old, Nigerian-Welsh writer and civil servant in the United Kingdom. In March 2020, Giwa-Amu published a YouTube video accusing award-winning writer Chimamanda Adichie of copying her novel “Sade”, published in 1996 and rebranding it as the critically acclaimed 2006 novel, “Half of a Yellow Sun”.

The dispute began when Giwa-Amu saw a poster of the film adaptation of Half of A Yellow Sun in London. This aroused suspicions about the similarity between the film’s plot and her novel. For clarity, she purchased Adichie’s novel where suspicions were confirmed. Giwa-Amu went on to release a 54-page document highlighting over 300 similarities between Sade and Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun, side by side and page for page. This ranges from similarities as unfounded as... https://olatorera.com/plagiarism-saga-does-anne-giwa-amu-have-a-case-against-chimammanda-adichie/