Americanah

December 17, 2020

Wilfred Okiche profiles ‘Winner of Winners;’ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | #YNaijaPOTY2020 Nominee

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 43, is practically the most recognisable Nigerian alive. The responsibility of representing a diverse, multi-ethnic entity of 200 million people in international circles is no doubt a thankless task. It isn’t one that Adichie would willingly attract to herself. But it is one that she has worn with the same grace and... Read More

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December 30, 2019

Can we get excited about ‘Americanah’ at this point?

With the announcement of a series-adaption of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s ‘Americanah’ by HBO in September came a lot of skepticism amidst the excitement of everyone’s favorite book getting well-deserved screen time. The skepticism was grounded mainly in the casting decision of Lupita Nyong’o, who optioned the rights to the books and has been a driving... Read More

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Chimamanda

December 29, 2019

Oluwaseun Ayodeji Osowobi profiles Chimamanda Adichie: A cultural icon | Y!/YNaija.com Person of the Year Nominee 2019

In late 2019, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie announced she was moving the Purple Hibiscus Creative Writing Workshop from Lagos to Awka in Anambra, it marked the beginning of a new era for Adichie’s extremely influential writing workshop and another assertion of her identity and pride in being a Nigerian contributing to the cultural renaissance we have... Read More

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December 20, 2019

5 Things that Should Matter Today: Wilfred Ndidi is now Nigeria’s most expensive player in the English Premier League

Leicester City star Wilfred Ndidi is now Nigeria’s most expensive player in the English premier league according to statistics published in a new report. Ndidi who has been in a rich vein from this season with 2 goals in 16 appearances is being courted by Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur, which has seen his value... Read More

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September 20, 2019

Will ‘Americanah’ be another Hollywood flop in portraying its Nigerian characters?

In 2014, about a year after it was published, Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s third novel which won the National Book Critics Circle Fiction award, and remains one of her most seminal works (not that all her works aren’t), was optioned by Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o. At the time, it was set to be made into... Read More

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December 31, 2014

David Oyelowo talks ‘Selma’, ‘MLK’ & Chimamanda’s Americanah in Essence Magazine

by Chinwe Okafor Following racial tensions that have been going on for months now and the rift caused by the grand jury decisions in Michael Brown and Eric Garner’s deaths, and the subsequent protests that have sprung up all over the world in reaction to them, Ava DuVernay’s Selma, the civil rights biopic chronicling Dr.... Read More

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December 31, 2014

Keside Anosike profiles Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Shoes, magic & the truth – A Chimamanda you don’t know (Y!/YNaija.com Person of the Year 2014 Nominee)

by Keside Anosike “Home is where my best shoes are”, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie stated in an interview with the world’s largest fashion magazine ELLE, sometime in February and I tell you it is true. I tell you that she has a great taste in shoes, just as she has an undying love affair with her... Read More

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August 11, 2014

Review: Here is the problem with the ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ film

by Wilfred Okiche The film event of the year in these parts isn’t going to be Marvel’s latest money grabber, Guardians of the Galaxy. It isn’t Angelina Jolie making a triumphantly evil return to the big screen in the sleeping beauty retool, Maleficent, and no matter how hard the campaign from Lionsgate films will... Read More

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#TheYNaijaInterview: “I did not give Chimamanda permission to use my lyrics” – Obiwon

by Wilfred Okiche Obiora Nwokolobia-Agu, the singer better known as Obiwon recently released his third album ‘Gold water’. He stopped by the YNaija offices and spoke with us about the album and what it means to him, his transition from pop music to gospel and his relationship with everyone’s favourite writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. We bring... Read More

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Ayodeji Rotinwa: Chimamanda Adichie – Beyoncé’s favourite novelist? Or great novelist… period

by Ayodeji Rotinwa Please, do bare in mind that some of us would never know of Chimamanda if it wasn’t for Beyonce. The truth is, I got the album and have been listening to ***Flawless over and over and it made me get Americanah and listen more closely to Adichie. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has shown... Read More

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December 21, 2013

Funlayo Akinosi: The 9 books I enjoyed reading in 2013

by Funlayo Akinosi Reading a book is a purely antisocial pleasure. You – the reader – reserve the right to your illusions. You can rate the experience fabulous and paint the words amazing as you modestly admire your exquisite taste and selection. Of course, when one or ten grumpy people interrupt your reverie to point out... Read More

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Chimamanda Adichie wins American prize

by Oge Okonkwo Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s third novel AMERICANAH has been awarded the 2013 Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for fiction. The Heartland Prize is a literary prize created in 1988 by the Chicago Tribune Newspaper. According to Elizabeth Taylor, the literary editor of the Chicago Tribune, the prize is awarded yearly in two categories, fiction and... Read More

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Elnathan John lets go on Chimamanda: “The consequences of loving Ngozi”

by Elnathan John When Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, darling of the world, chooses to, well, refer to Caine Prize nominee Elnathan John as her “boy” in this interview with the Boston Review, there certainly was going to be a reaction coming. And, via his blog, oh, what a comeback! It is the Americans you blame as... Read More

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“I’m very happily feminist” – Award-winning novelist, Chimamanda Adichie on CNN’s African Voices (WATCH)

by Rachel Ogbu Award winning novelist, Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie has been promoting her new book, Americanah. She was recently on CNN‘s African Voices to talk about it with presenter, Zain Verjee. [READ: “The plot feels like an excuse”: The New York Times is not impressed with Chimamanda’s ‘Americanah’ ] Adichie reveals her inspiration behind her new... Read More

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“The plot feels like an excuse”: The New York Times is not impressed with Chimamanda’s ‘Americanah’

by Janet Maslin And “Americanah” comes dangerously close to the “exaggerated histrionics” and “improbable plots” that she ascribes to Nigerian, or Nollywood, films. When readers of “Americanah” first meet its Nigerian-born heroine, Ifemelu, she has come a long way in life. She holds a fellowship at Princeton. She is “the absolute love of my life”... Read More

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“I don’t intend to make a statement with my hair but I do:” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (WATCH)

by Rachel Ogbu Award winning novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was in the UK recently and appeared on Channel 4 News. Adichie speaks to news anchor, Jon Snow about her new book; Americanah and why it mirrors some of the central issues of her own life; race, immigration and the power of hair. “Nigeria is home... Read More

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