Tag: Americanah
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
#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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
“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 ...
“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, ...
“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 ...
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