https://padlet.com/jakob100203/kg428ksk49941qnm en-us 2022-03-28 19:13:44 UTC 2025-12-08 11:51:27 UTC hello@padlet.com jakob100203 https://padlet.com/jakob100203/kg428ksk49941qnm/wish/2117878494 She was born in Enugu, Nigeria on September 15 , 1977 She moved to the United States in 1997 and attended many schools such as Yale University, Eastern Connecticut Uni, and John Hopkins Uni. She is an Author, Teacher, Novelist, as well as a poet who earned the Commonwealth Writers' Prize after publishing her first novel at Eastern Connecticut in 2003 

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie married her husband Dr. Ivara Esege in 2009, for their wedding they decided to break several conventional norms associated with weddings, such as how the father walks the bride down the aisle, has the first dance with his daughter and often the father delivers a speech while the mother doesn't  however she had her mother partake in all of those. 

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Chimamanda-Ngozi-Adichie

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/06/why-i-had-my-mother-father-walk-me-down-the-aisle-chimamanda-adichie/

]]> 2022-03-28 19:19:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jakob100203/kg428ksk49941qnm/wish/2117878494 jakob100203 https://padlet.com/jakob100203/kg428ksk49941qnm/wish/2117989425 Purple Hibiscus (Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2003; London: Fourth Estate, 2004; Lagos: Farafina, 2004)

Half of a Yellow Sun (London: Fourth Estate, 2006; Lagos: Farafina, 2006; New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007)

Americanah (London: Fourth Estate, 2013; New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013; Lagos: Farafina, 2013)

Decisions (London: Minerva Press, 1997)

'We dream', Poetry Magazine 3.9, September 1998

Visiting Nigeria', Poetry Magazine 6.6, June 2001

http://www.cerep.ulg.ac.be/adichie/cnaprim.html#poems]]> 2022-03-28 20:37:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jakob100203/kg428ksk49941qnm/wish/2117989425 jakob100203 https://padlet.com/jakob100203/kg428ksk49941qnm/wish/2117995093 "We Raise Girls to cater to the fragile egos of men. 
we teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. 
We tell girls ' you can have ambition, but not too much. 
You should aim to be successful, but not too successful, otherwise you will threaten the man ..."]]> 2022-03-28 20:42:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jakob100203/kg428ksk49941qnm/wish/2117995093 jakob100203 https://padlet.com/jakob100203/kg428ksk49941qnm/wish/2118122190 chimamanda ngozi adichie went and became a very popular poet from nigeria who is best known for her themes of politics, culture, race, as well as gender. ]]> 2022-03-28 23:08:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jakob100203/kg428ksk49941qnm/wish/2118122190 jakob100203 https://padlet.com/jakob100203/kg428ksk49941qnm/wish/2118129566 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wanted the american readers to know that african writers don't only write about "Africa's Problems"  and from her interview on Ted Talk she wanted people to not judge people because of her own experiences from nigeria and in her experience the first time in america. " if we only hear about a people, place or situation from one point of view, we risk accepting one experience as the whole truth. "

https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story?language=en]]> 2022-03-28 23:18:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jakob100203/kg428ksk49941qnm/wish/2118129566