Chimamanda Ngoxi Adichie

Jun 19, 2024 | guardian.ng | Chimamanda Ngoxi Adichie |John Donne

The Yoruba tradition is rife with legendary and mythological episodes, and no deity crystallises this tradition, especially its euhemeristic inclinations than Sango, son of Oranmiyan and third Alaafin of the Oyo Empire.

Apr 9, 2024 | readersdigest.in | Siddhartha Mukherjee |R. F. Kuang |Chimamanda Ngoxi Adichie |Jerry Pinto

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer By Siddhartha Mukherjee, Scribner The protagonist of this Pulitzer Prize winning book is a life-threatening illness that colonizes our bodies in the most violent way: cancer. Mukherjee’s sharp writing, grounded in painstaking research, makes this an important contribution to medical journalism, and to our lives. I am in awe of this book because it makes this inscrutable illness slightly more understandable.

May 12, 2023 | theatlantic.com | Chimamanda Ngoxi Adichie

America fascinated me as America fascinates every newcomer. Nineteen years old and fleeing the study of medicine at my Nigerian university, I longed to be a writer, to live a life of the mind. From my first days, I watched and read and learned. I was struck by the excess and the newness of America, by its flagrant contradictions, but mostly by how identity as an idea shaped so much of American life.