Chimamanda Adichie
On Thursday, June 17 2010; award-winning novelist Chimamanda Adichie read from her book of short stories The Things Around Your Neck. She was then joined by novelist Tayari Jones for a conversation about her work and process. The event took place at the Tenement Museum in lower Manhattan.

Chimamanda was interviewed in Mosaic #17. Click here to download. 13mb
Photo credit: WideVision Photography/Marcia E. Wilson
 

Let There Be Peace, Let There Be Life
Chimamanda Adichie Interviewed by A. Naomi Jackson.
Mosaic #17 - Winter 2007

Referencing elder statesman Chinua Achebe’s classic novel Things Fall Apart, Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie begins her stunning debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, with these words: “Things began to fall apart at home the day my brother, Jaja, did not go to communion…” So starts one of the most breathtaking first novels I’ve read in the past several years. Over the course of the novel, Adichie’s protagonist, Kambili, blossoms from her place under her father’s thumb into a young woman who learns how to laugh and love the sound of her own voice. At the end of this novel, I felt privileged to have read the first major work from Adichie, poised to lead the new generation of young African writers who call home places as different as Lagos, Nigeria’s vibrant cultural capital and Princeton, New Jersey, the city where the writer now makes her home as a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University.

Adichie, who says that she has been writing since she knew how to spell, is no stranger to accomplishing extraordinary feats... Click here to download Mosaic #17