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Adichie talks about her works, inspirations and impact on Nigeria.
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African Voices, a weekly show that examines the
diversity, dynamism and global influence of Africa’s people and culture; and
highlights Africa’s most engaging personalities within and in the Diaspora will
be featuring Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, one of Nigeria’s most prolific writers.
Cheerfully pioneering the way for a new wave of
Nigerian writers, renowned Nigerian Author, Adichie, narrates her award winning
novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, as it tells a human story of a brutal and
controversial civil war which took place in her homeland, Nigeria, in the late
60’s.
Highly influenced by her Mother, Ifeoma Adichie,
who became the first female Registrar of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka,
Adichie is bold, vivacious, candid; a story teller living her truth. And that
fulfilment translates into Award winning novels.
Describing her development
as a writer, between her books Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun and
Americana, Adichie says ‘they are
such different books, and I think I wrote them from very different places in my
life, emotionally.’
According to her ‘For Purple Hibiscus, I was very
homesick, I was in the US. Suddenly I was romantisizing the hibiscus flowers in
our front yard and I wrote this book, about missing home, nostalgia. Half of a
Yellow Sun was so different. I knew I was writing about this very intense,
contested history and I did so much research, and I cried a lot when I was
writing it. My grandfathers died in Biafra, and here I was kind of mining the
pain of my family.’
‘Then Americana, I laughed a lot writing it. It's
just very different, I don't so much see it as a kind of linear progression -
the books. It's sort of more just like occupying different parallel spaces,’
Adichie concluded.
From uncovering historical atrocities to playing a
role in shaping her country, Nigeria’s future, Adichie has also considered a
career in politics.
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