Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie is a Nigerian writer who has published nine novels, a collection of stories, and a number of short stories. Her first novel, Purple Hibiscus, was awarded the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in 2002. Her second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2007. In 2013 she was elected as a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
In 2010 she was awarded the Man Booker International Prize Short Story Award for her story "We Should All Be Feminists."
The problem with gender is that is prescribes how we ´should' be rather than recognizing how we are.Chimamamanda Ngozie Adichie
The sad truth of the matter is that when it comes to appearance, we start off with men as the standard, the norm.Chimamamanda Ngozie Adichie
Culture does not make people. People make culture. if it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture.Chimamamanda Ngozie Adichie
