Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 44, is a Nigerian writer, racial justice activist and feminist. She left Nigeria at 19 to come to the United States to study communication and political science, creative writing and African studies. She lives between Lagos and Washington, D.C.
Her literary career took off with her 2003 novel Purple Hibiscus. Her 2013 novel Americanah is the story of a young Nigerian woman who emigrates to the United States and faces poverty, discrimination and racism. In 2014, Adichie published We Should All Be Feminists, and in 2017, Dear Ijeawele, or A Manifesto for a Feminist Education, two essays in which she advocates for a feminist education from the earliest possible age. Soon after, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the highest intellectual honours in the United States, and Fortune Magazine named her one of the world’s 50 greatest leaders.
In her fight against all forms of cliché and her refusal of a “single story”, Adichie demonstrates the complexity of “truth”.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's biography.
Three video testimonials by Daria Tunca, professor of English literature at University of Liège, Mélissa Diantete, literary Instagrammer and Soraya Amrani, former cultural columnist (ARTE Belgium). (in french)