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Editor 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…

Nelson C.J 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…

Op-ed Editor 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…

Op-Ed Editor 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…

Op-Ed Editor 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…

Ada Igboanugo 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,…

Isime Esene 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…

Isime Esene 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…

March 26, 2014

Cover of Chude Jideonwo’s new book ‘Are we the turning-point generation?’ released

by Akintomiwa Agbaje Kachifo Limited, which has published some of the continent’s most finest writers including Chimamanda Ngozi-Adichie, Sefi Atta Binyavanga Wainaina has released the cover for ‘Are we the turning point…

March 9, 2014

#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…

March 5, 2014

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…

Kolapo Olapoju January 12, 2014

That thing around its neck: Is ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ the biggest flop of 2013? (YNaija Long Read)

by Wilfred Okiche One of the surest things on the planet at the moment? Come Thursday next week, when all of the votes are in and the names are pulled…

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…

July 17, 2013

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…

July 15, 2013

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…

May 22, 2013

“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.…

May 20, 2013

“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…

April 21, 2013

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

by Rachel Ogbu Photo: Independent UK Award winning novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was in the UK recently and appeared on Channel 4 News. Adichie speaks to news anchor, Jon…

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