My Mother, the Crazy African, by Chimamanda Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Abba, in Nigeria in 1977. She moved to the US when she was 19 to studey. She has a master´s degree in Creative Writing. She is the author of three novels, Purple Hibiscus (2003), Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), and Americanah (2013), of a short story collection, The Thing around Your Neck (2009), a collection of poems, Decision. She has also written a play, For Love of Biafra.
She has received numerous awards and distinctions, including the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (2007) and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2008).
The Biafran war, and its consequences on the Nigerian people, is a major theme in her work.
For more information about the author, visit her official web site.
To read My Mother, The Crazy African on line, click here.
Do you have some more minutes to spare? If you do, don´t miss this fascinating talk by Chimamanda Adichie. Watch the video and be ready to comment on it in class!
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