(CNN) — Even the most celebrated voices can fall silent. For Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the acclaimed author of “Purple Hibiscus,” “Americanah” and “Half of a Yellow Sun,” that silence stretched into ...

Critically acclaimed Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is just 36 years-old and yet her most recent book “Americanah,” a New York Times Best Book of 2013, joins an already impressive body of ...

The internationally known feminist featured on Beyoncé's "***Flawless" is under fire after remarks she made about transgender women. In an interview with the U.K.'s Channel 4 News posted Friday, ...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, esteemed Nigerian author, thinks we need to stop using terms like "patriarchy" if we want feminism to work. She was speaking about the types of specific words people use when ...

The writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie isn’t afraid to speak her mind. Her most well-known novel, Americanah, explores race, love, and migration through the story of a young Nigerian woman who moves to ...

When her father died, the author of “Americanah” produced a slim work of nonfiction. When her mother died, she poured her grief into a sprawling 416-page novel. When her father died, the author of ...

In her 2013 single "Flawless," Beyoncé sampled a speech given by award-winning Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie entitled "We Should All Be Feminists." The internet was awash with thinkpieces ...

As a student in the U.S. for the last decade, writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has received a new perspective on her native Nigeria. It is not a point of view that she likes or agrees with, but one she ...

Today, she is celebrated not only as a novelist but also as an essayist, short-story writer, feminist thinker, and cultural critic. Not a stranger to many, Chimamanda is one of the most influential ...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the Nigerian novelist and outspoken feminist, drew criticism from transgender activists after suggesting that the experiences of transgender women are different from women ...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Dream Count” feels like a homecoming. The Nigerian author’s first work of longform fiction in over a decade reminds us of the sharp wisdom and sturdy empathy that have made ...