Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wrote three novels and a short story collection. She received several literary awards in her career, including the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (2007). Her best-known work is this book, Americanah, about a Nigerian woman who emigrates to America for her studies and ends up staying there for her work. Adichie has been hailed as the one who managed to get a new generation interested in African literature.
Adichie studied medicine at the University of Nigeria for a year and a half. During her studies, she edited the Catholic university magazine The Compass. When she was nineteen, Adichie left Nigiria and moved to the United States, where she went to study communication and political science at Drexel University, Philadelphia. In 2001, she earned her Bachelor’s degree summa cum laude and in 2003, she obtained a master’s degree in Creative Writing from John Hopkins University. Five years later, she also obtained a Master of Arts in African studies from Yale University.
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- In English
- Paperback
- 400 pages
- Publisher Harper Collins UK
- ISBN: 9780007356348
