Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a thirty five year-old Nigerian writer. She is the author of three novels and many short stories, she has received numerous awards, and she has testified her own experience in several public speeches. Adichie described in one of those speeches the way in wich she first enjoyed literature: with the traditional  way of western  life, which also changed her own consciousness of being, as people like her could not exist in the stories she read, and later started to write. It was only when she became aware of her identity and traveled abroad, studying in philadelphia and not fullfilling other people's expectations about what an African would be like opened her eyes. She rejects being treated as a stadistic, she explains people know a lot about how africans die, but not much about how they live. A book, a powerfull object in the writer's words, can change the way people think about the others, and even about themselves.



"I write because I have to, I love its sound, I love characters, I touch other people with my work."

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Her web page: http://chimamanda.com/

Nelson mandela described the book "things fall apart"by the Nigerian  author Chinua Achebe, as the book in whose presence the prison walls came down.