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43 quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Sorry, your browser either has JavaScript disabled or does not have any supported player. You can download the clip or download a player to play the clip in your browser. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talks about The Thing Around Your Neck on Bookbits radio. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (i/tʃɪmɑːmɑːndə əŋɡoʊzi ʌdiːtʃ(j)eɪ/;[note 1] born 15 September 1977) is a Nigerian novelist and short story writer. She has been called "the most prominent" of a...
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I divide my time between Columbia, Maryland, and Lagos, Nigeria.

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Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.

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I've always been curious about how much of our cultural baggage we bring to what and how we read. I suspect we bring a lot, although we like to... →

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I find that women... deal with immigration differently. And I'm interested in that.

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In primary school in south-eastern Nigeria, I was taught that Hosni Mubarak was the president of Egypt. I learned the same thing in secondary school.... →

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'No Sweetness Here' is the kind of old-fashioned social realism I have always been drawn to in fiction, and it does what I think all good... →

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Each of my novels has come from a different place, and the processes are not always entirely conscious. I have lived off and on in America for a... →

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I realized that I was African when I came to the United States. Whenever Africa came up in my college classes, everyone turned to me. It didn't... →

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Nigerian politics has been, since the military dictatorships, largely non-ideological. Rather than a battle of ideas, it is about who can pump in the... →

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Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and... →

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Sometimes novels are considered 'important' in the way medicine is - they taste terrible and are difficult to get down your throat, but are... →

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You know, I don't think of myself as anything like a 'global citizen' or anything of the sort. I am just a Nigerian who's comfortable... →

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There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria.

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