Nigerian Literature

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into thirty languages and has appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker, Granta, The O. Henry Prize Stories, the Financial Times, and Zoetrope. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the Orange Prize and was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, a New York Times Notable Book, and a People and Black Issues Book Review Best Book of the Year; and the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck. Her latest novel Americanah, was published around the world in 2013, and has received numerous accolades, including winning the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and The Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Fiction; and being named one of The New York Times Ten Best Books of the Year. (From: http://chimamanda.com/about-chimamanda/).

In her novels and short stories she covers a wide range of topics: the politics of race, transnational identities (Nigerian, English, American...), the politics of gender, belonging, revision and rewriting of historical events, etc.

Half of a yellow Sun has already become a film (2013), and the Nigerian actress Lupita Nyong'o (Academy awarded actress) has recently bought the rights to produce Americanah, starring herself along with and Brad Pitt.

You can find many of Chimamanda Adichie's interviews, talks and lectures online. Here are some examples of the ones that have caught my attention the most.

Interviews:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/mar/21/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-interview
(From: The Guardian).

http://www.l3.ulg.ac.be/adichie/cnainterview.html

(From: The Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Website).

TED Talks:

'The Danger of a Single Story'