Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian writer born in Enugu in 1977, raised on the University of Nigeria campus in Nsukka, where her father was a professor and her mother the first female registrar. She studied medicine briefly before moving to the US at 19, earning a degree summa cum laude in Communication and Political Science from Eastern Connecticut State University and later a master's in creative writing from Johns Hopkins. Her acclaimed novels like Purple Hibiscus (2003) and Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), along with nonfiction and TED Talks, explore feminism, postcolonialism, and identity, establishing her as a global literary figure.[1][2][4]