“She makes storytelling seem as easy as birdsong” (Daily Telegraph).
Chimamanda is first and for most known by her profession than herself in fact. Imagine you don’t know a woman by appearance, but you know her works when her name rings out like abell.
Chimamanda is a Nigerian writer per excellence. This woman could go as far as being termed the “true symbol of brilliance in an Africa woman.” That’s what I’d call her. The simplicity with which her works are broken down and appreciated does not qualify her as a cheap intellectual, it’s all the more a symbol of extraordinariness in the midst of the ordinary.
Having four publications to her name, then a bunch of extras as made-up compilations from interviews and lectures, Chimamanda is no doubt expensive, yet with little goods in terms of quantity.
Her educational background is rich. Her works speak for themselves, so also the awards given her.
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Her first book, “Purple Hibiscus (2003)” won Commonwealth writer’s Prize for best first book. Like this, the rest of her books did not lag in bring home one prize or the other; home and abroad.
Ngozi Adichie is renowned in her works for exploring the African lifestyle, giving an ordinary situation a kind of essence that is barely noticed. So, if she makes storytelling look as easy as birdsong, it’s also like to say she writes lines easily comprehendible. She makes reading a practice one has not to be forced into; she makes everyone almost equal in the face of her ideas; she makes Nigerians want to embrace originality over guise.
It is nothing to argue about how that her writing style is reflected in the works of growing writers; some of whom have tagged her a role model.
Imagine a world with lots of Chimamandas not just with regards to writing, but also in living our true cultures as, not only is she expressive of the Nigerian (Africa) lifestyle on paper, she also lived and lives it in the real life.