Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
1977
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a noteworthy Nigerian novelist, who is well known for writing some very popular contemporary, feminism, literary fiction, and nonfiction novels. Her popular works include Purple Hibiscus, Americannah, We Should All Be Feminists, etc. Adichie has won the prestigious MacArthur Genius Grant and has been described the most prominent among several critically acclaimed anglophone authors. She is said to have succeeded in attracting new readers to the African literature. Author Adichie was born on September 15, 1977 in Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria. She is the 5th of the six children born to James Nwoye Adichie and Grace Ifoema. While Adichie was growing up, her father was employed at the Nigeria University as a statistics professor. Her family has their ancestral village in the Anambra State. Adichie has studied pharmacy and medicine at the Nigeria University for a period of less than 2 years. During that period, she got the chance to edit The Compass, the university’s magazine run by medical students.