![]() ![]() “I don’t remember a time when I didn’t want to tell stories,” says Adichie. My feminism comes from somewhere else: acute dissatisfaction.”Īdichie, 40, is in New York for a brief visit before heading back to the home outside of Baltimore where she, her husband, and their little girl live when they’re not in her native Nigeria. “That’s where my storytelling comes from. “I want to tell the truth,” says Adichie, talking at a restaurant in midtown Manhattan. Her award-winning, best-selling novels, Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun, combine graceful storytelling with real moral heft that latter quality also radiates throughout her nonfiction works, We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele: A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (the latter newly published in paperback). ![]() Photo: Photograph by Mamadi Doumbouya for VultureĬhimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the rare contemporary novelist to have earned celebrity status as a result of both her art and her politics, to the diminishment of neither. ![]()
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