Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Nigeria · born 1977

Adichie’s novels explore history, migration, power and belonging. Her essays and talks have also brought feminist arguments to wide audiences, connecting unequal expectations with ordinary language and social habits.

Her work makes storytelling itself a political question: whose experience is treated as the norm, and what is lost when a person or place is reduced to one account?

“We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller.”

We Should All Be Feminists, TEDx talk (2012); excerpt.

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