Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the power of one's own voice

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian feminist writer, novelist and playwright whose work has been translated into thirty languages ​​and has appeared in numerous renowned publications, including The New Yorker, Granta, The O. Henry Prize Stories, The Financial Times and Zoetrope.

Chimamanda was born in Enugu, Nigeria, on September 15, 1977. At the age of 19, she moved to the United States on a two-year scholarship to rcs data america communications and political science. There, she continued her training with master's degrees in creative writing and African studies.

In 2003, while still at university, she published her first novel, Purple Hibiscus , which received the Commonwealth Award for First Book Writers . In 2013, her novel Americanah, which was published worldwide, also received numerous awards, including being selected as one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times .

But Chimamanda 's name began to ring a bell with the general public after some of her speeches went viral, mainly the Ted talk: The danger of the single story , which has challenged the public to think differently and more inclusively about identity, race and gender.

Chimamanda has become one of the most prominent voices in African literature and has been named to Fortune magazine's list of the World's 50 Greatest Leaders, which aims to recognize and celebrate individuals who transform the world and inspire others to do the same in business, government, philanthropy or the arts.

Recently, Nigerian writer Chimamanda has returned to the scene with a campaign that boosts the consumption of her country's clothing brands. She declared that she will wear Nigerian designs in most of her public appearances to actively promote these products: