The acclaimed author says 21-month-old Nkanu's death after an MRI at a Lagos hospital changed her lifelong sense of belonging.

That realization sits at the heart of one of the most powerful TED Talks ever given, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s The Danger of a Single Story. The deeper lesson extends far beyond literature.

Acclaimed novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is once again voicing anti-transgender views. Ngozi Adichie, a Nigerian who lives part of the time in the U.S., went into trans issues in a recent interview ...

The last we heard of any progress for the film adaptation for Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s 2013 novel, Americanah was back in 2014 when Variety announced that David Oyelowo was pegged to co-star ...

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 ...

Adichie writes she "came undone" when she learned of her dad's death. Her new book is a charged account of his passing — and also a narrative of mourning in the time of pandemic. This is FRESH AIR. In ...

The acclaimed author shared the news in a family statement, asking for privacy as they mourn the loss of their son. The acclaimed author says a Lagos hospital failed to follow basic medical protocols ...

Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and her husband Ivara Esege, MD, are grieving an unimaginable loss. Their one-year-old son has passed away after suffering a brief illness. The renowned author ...

Despite her celebrated status within the writing community (honors include a MacArthur Fellowship and being one of The New Yorker's "20 Under 40"), most people hadn't heard of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ...

The novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has had commercial and critical success: her best-seller “Americanah” won a National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction, and a speech she gave on feminism was ...

Every item on this page was chosen by an ELLE editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. It was announced today that celebrated author, feminist, and aesthete Chimamanda ...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the rare contemporary novelist to have earned celebrity status as a result of both her art and her politics, to the diminishment of neither. Her award-winning, best-selling ...