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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    15 september 1977

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is een gevierde Nigeriaanse auteur wiens werk duikt in de ingewikkelde thema's van identiteit, cultuur en maatschappelijke transformatie. Door haar literaire bekwaamheid verkent ze de diepten van menselijke verbinding en de impact van historische gebeurtenissen op het hedendaagse leven. Haar proza, gekenmerkt door scherpe inzichten en levendige taal, biedt een uniek perspectief op de Afrikaanse ervaring en de universele resonanties ervan. Adichie vormt ook het wereldwijde discours door haar invloedrijke lezingen, die wereldwijd miljoenen hebben geïnspireerd.

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    The Thing Around Your Neck
    Americanah
    We Should All Be Feminists
    We Shoul All Be Feminists. The Desk Diary 2021
    We Should All Be Feminists: A Guided Journal
    Dear Ijeawele: A feminist manifesto in fifteen suggestions
    • This illustrated journal features a collection of powerful and inspiring quotes from a best-selling author and global feminist icon, accompanied by an exclusive introductory essay. It serves as a testament to her influence and advocacy for women's rights, offering readers both motivation and insight into her philosophy. The combination of visuals and poignant reflections makes it a unique resource for anyone seeking empowerment and inspiration in their daily lives.

      We Should All Be Feminists: A Guided Journal
      4,4
    • A beautiful hardback, elastic hinged desk diary with a week to a view alongside an inspiring and powerful quote or a photograph of Chimamanda and a brand-new introduction from her.

      We Shoul All Be Feminists. The Desk Diary 2021
      4,4
    • Offers an updated definition of feminism for the twenty-first century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness.

      We Should All Be Feminists
      4,4
    • Americanah

      • 400bladzijden
      • 14 uur lezen

      A young woman from Nigeria leaves behind her home and her first love to start a new life in America, only to find her dreams are not all she expected.

      Americanah
      4,3
    • The Thing Around Your Neck

      • 217bladzijden
      • 8 uur lezen

      The stories in this collection from Orange-Prize winner Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie straddle the cultures of Nigeria and the West. Her characters battle with the responsibilities of modern life, a world in which identity is too often compromised.

      The Thing Around Your Neck
      4,3
    • A devastating essay on loss and the people we love from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun.

      Notes on grief
      4,3
    • Half of a yellow sun

      • 433bladzijden
      • 16 uur lezen

      With astonishing empathy and the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence of the decade. Thirteen-year-old Ugwu is employed as a houseboy for a university professor full of revolutionary zeal. Olanna is the professor's beautiful mistress, who has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos for a dusty university town and the charisma of her new lover. And Richard is a shy young Englishman in thrall to Olanna's twin sister, an enigmatic figure who refuses to belong to anyone. As Nigerian troops advance and the three must run for their lives, their ideals are severely tested, as are their loyalties to one another.

      Half of a yellow sun
      4,3
    • Purple Hibiscus

      • 320bladzijden
      • 12 uur lezen

      **DREAM COUNT, the searing new bestselling novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is out now!** A haunting tale of an Africa and an adolescence undergoing tremendous changes from the talented bestseller and award-winning author. 'A tale for our times' DAILY MAIL 'Immensely powerful' THE TIMES The limits of fifteen-year-old Kambili's world are defined by the high walls of her family estate and the dictates of her fanatically religious father. Her life is regulated by schedules: prayer, sleep, study, prayer. When Nigeria is shaken by a military coup, Kambili's father, involved mysteriously in the political crisis, sends her to live with her aunt. In this house, noisy and full of laughter, she discovers life and love - and a terrible, bruising secret deep within her family. This extraordinary debut novel from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of 'Half of a Yellow Sun', is about the blurred lines between the old gods and the new, childhood and adulthood, love and hatred - the grey spaces in which truths are revealed and real life is lived. 'I could not put it down' IRISH TIMES 'An intoxicating story that is at once distinctly feminine, African and universal' OBSERVER

      Purple Hibiscus
      4,2