Intellectual interventions: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and the ethics of texture and messiness

This article aims to reframe understanding of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s recent public intellectual interventions by reading them as a meditation on messiness and texture. In doing so, it sheds light on the precarious politics and ethics that affect the work and reception of literary celebrities

Americanah: A Novel

A young woman from Nigeria leaves behind her home and her first love to start a new life in America, only to find her dreams are not all she expected.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/dlpp_all/1148/thumbnail.jp

Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise her baby girl as a feminist. \u27Dear Ijeawele\u27 is Adichie\u27s letter of response. Here are fifteen suggestions for how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman. From encouraging her to choose a helicopter, and not only a doll, as a toy if she so desires; having open conversations with her about clothes, makeup, and sexuality; debunking the myth that women are somehow biologically arranged to be in the kitchen making dinner, and that men can allow women to have full careers, Dear Ijeawele goes right to the heart of sexual politics in the twenty-first century. It can start a conversation about what it really means to be a woman todayhttps://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/dlpp_all/1481/thumbnail.jp

For Love of Biafra

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Decisions

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The Thing Around Your Neck

A collection of twelve stories includes the tale of a medical student in hiding with a poor Muslim woman, and a woman who discovers a devastating secret about her brother\u27s death.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/dlpp_all/1147/thumbnail.jp

Half of a Yellow Sun

Re-creates the 1960s struggle of Biafra to establish an independent republic in Nigeria, following the intertwined lives of the characters through a military coup, the Biafran secession, and the resulting civil war.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/dlpp_all/1149/thumbnail.jp