Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (NG) & Moussa Mchangama
The event is sold out, but will be livestreamed on this page. It's free to watch the livestream.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has a critically acclaimed writing career behind her, taking the world by storm with Americanah (2013) and A Half Yellow Sun (2006, da. 2015), both of which have received prestigious awards. Adichie's TED Talk We Should All Be Feminists has been viewed more than 6 million times and published as a book.
Livestreaming
Hear Chimamanda Adichie talk about her writing live from International Authors' Stage. The event will be livestreamed via Facebook and YouTube as well as to a number of public libraries.
Representative of a new generation
Adichie is probably the most prominent representative of a new generation of African authors who have made a breakthrough in the United States and are read all over the world.
Drawing on her own life story of growing up in war-torn Nigeria and moving to the US, Adichie writes politically and humorously about race, alienation, gender and culture.
"There are some novels that tell a great story and others that make you change the way you look at the world. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah is a book that manages to do both".
- The Guardian on Americanah
A new essay, Notes on grief
Most recently, in May 2021, she published the memoir essay Notes on grief about the sudden death of her beloved father. Notes on grief was originally published in a slightly shorter version in the American weekly magazine The New Yorker. In the book, she writes about losing her father in a corona-deprived world. She is alone in the grieving process without her family in Nigeria. It is a heartfelt and deeply melancholic description of powerlessness and an account of the obvious futility that strikes her as she encounters her father's end of life. The world goes on, despite the fact that he is no longer alive.
In this deeply personal essay, Adichie explores the nature of grief, which she shares with millions of others during the pandemic. Notes on grief is a celebration of a life lived, a story of a daughter's unconditional love for a parent, a study in different forms of loss, and in the nature of grief. Adichie takes a highly personal approach to the subject of her book, writing herself into a current wave of highly auto-fictional tendencies.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie at International Authors' Stage in 2014
About Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria, but now divides her time between Nigeria and the United States, where she has pursued various degrees in communications, political science and creative writing. Before that, she also studied medicine at university in Nigeria.
About Moussa Mchangama
Moussa Mchangama is co-owner of the consultancy In futurum. He operates at the intersection of consumption, culture, sustainability, social issues and inequality and has worked for 10 years as an editor, critic and strategic communicator.
