African
Voices, a weekly show that examines the diversity, dynamism and global
influence of Africa’s people and culture; and highlights Africa’s most engaging
personalities within and in the Diaspora will be featuring Chimamanda Ngozi
Adichie, one of Nigeria’s most prolific writers.
As Adichie talks about her works,
inspirations and impact on Nigeria. Cheerfully pioneering the way for a new
wave of Nigerian writers, renowned Nigerian Author, Adichie, narrates her award
winning novel, Half of a
Yellow Sun, as it tells a
human story of a brutal and controversial civil war which took place in her
homeland, Nigeria, in the late 60’s.
Highly influenced by her Mother,
Ifeoma Adichie, who became the first female Registrar of the University of
Nigeria, Nsukka, Adichie is bold, vivacious, candid; a story teller living her
truth. And that fulfilment translates into Award winning novels.
Describing her development as a
writer, between her books Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun and Americana,
Adichie says ‘they are such different books, and I think I wrote them from very
different places in my life, emotionally.’
According
to her ‘For Purple Hibiscus, I was very homesick, I was in the US. Suddenly I
was romantisizing the hibiscus flowers in our front yard and I wrote this book,
about missing home, nostalgia. Half of a Yellow Sun was so different. I knew I
was writing about this very intense, contested history and I did so much
research, and I cried a lot when I was writing it. My grandfathers died in
Biafra, and here I was kind of mining the pain of my family.’
‘Then Americana, I laughed a lot
writing it. It’s just very different, I don’t so much see it as a kind of
linear progression – the books. It’s sort of more just like occupying different
parallel spaces,’ Adichie concluded.
From uncovering historical
atrocities to playing a role in shaping her country, Nigeria’s future, Adichie
has also considered a career in politics.
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