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    The document provides background information on Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. It discusses her upbringing in Nsukka, Nigeria and education in the United States. Adichie's novels explore the Nigerian experience with colonization, war, and immigration. Her works have been published internationally and recognized with awards. She is known for her TED Talk discussing the danger of a single story defining another culture.

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    The document provides background information on Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. It discusses her upbringing in Nsukka, Nigeria and education in the United States. Adichie's novels explore the Nigerian experience with colonization, war, and immigration. Her works have been published internationally and recognized with awards. She is known for her TED Talk discussing the danger of a single story defining another culture.

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    The document provides background information on Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. It discusses her upbringing in Nsukka, Nigeria and education in the United States. Adichie's novels explore the Nigerian experience with colonization, war, and immigration. Her works have been published internationally and recognized with awards. She is known for her TED Talk discussing the danger of a single story defining another culture.

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    The document provides background information on Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. It discusses her upbringing in Nsukka, Nigeria and education in the United States. Adichie's novels explore the Nigerian experience with colonization, war, and immigration. Her works have been published internationally and recognized with awards. She is known for her TED Talk discussing the danger of a single story defining another culture.

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    The document outlines Nigeria's history from British colonization in the 1800s through independence in 1960 and the Biafran civil war to modern conflicts and Adichie's background and works.

    British colonization in the 1800s, independence in 1960, the Biafran civil war from 1967-1970, religious conflicts in the 1980s, and military rule under Sani Abacha from 1993-1998.

    Adichie's childhood in Nsukka, near the University of Nigeria where her parents worked, influenced her writing through stories set in childhood and focusing on childhood experiences.

    The Thing Around

    Your Neck
    Anna Seward and Amina Taylor
    Nsukka

    • 1800 British colonize Nigeria and divide it into North,


    East, and West, largely separating the Igbo, Yoruba, and
    Hausa tribes from each other
    • 1960 Nigeria gains independence and tries to create a
    unified Nigeria
    • September 1967 violence against Igbo in Northern region
    increases (deaths estimated at 30,000 probably around 8,000)
    • As a result, many Igbo move to the southern parts of Nigeria
    • May 1967 Lt. Col. Chukwuemeka Ojukwu announces the
    Republic of Biafra and the civil war begins
    • Biafra gets aid from United States and Western Europe by
    stressing the threat of genocide for the Igbo people, however
    they continue to lose ground to the nationalists
    • Nsukka falls in July
    • War ends in January 1970 after over a million deaths and the
    rebels are allowed back into a unified Nigeria

    Biafran Civil War 1967-1970


    • 1980s Christian/Muslim religious conflicts
    • Emergence of more radical Islamic sects
    • Major riots in five cities (including Kano in 1980)
    • Largely due to migration of the rural poor into urban towns
    • Military Rule and the Reign of Sani Abacha (1993-1998)
    • Took over after the failed elections of 1993, declared
    absolute power by 1994
    • Numerous human rights abuses have made him known as
    the Hitler of Nigeria
    • Return to democracy with his death and the 1999
    elections

    Modern Nigeria
    Background

     Adichie was born in 1977 in Enugu, Nigeria. She grew up


    in Nsukka near the University of Nigeria where both of her
    parents worked.
     Her father was a statistics professor and her mother a
    registrar at the university.
     After studying medicine at the University of Nigeria,
    Adichie moved to the United States at the age of 19 to
    pursue a bachelor’s degree in communications and
    political science.
     She went on to receive a master’s degree in creative
    writing from John’s Hopkins University
     She currently lives in both Nigeria, where she regularly
    teaches writing workshops, and the United States

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie


    Career and Recognition

     In addition to novels, Adichie has successfully published a number of poems,


    plays, and short stories
     Her works have been published both in the United States and Nigeria, speaking
    to the Nigerian experience of colonization, Civil War, and immigration.
     Her previous works include: Purple Hibiscus (2003) and Half the Yellow Sun
    (2006)
     She was shortlisted for the Orange Fiction Prize in 2004
     Following the publication of Purple Hibiscus, she received the Commonwealth
    Writers’ Prize for Best First Book in 2005
     She was shortlisted in 2009 for the John Llewellyn-Rhys Memorial Prize
     She was recognized by The New Yorker in 2012 as one of the “20 under 40”
    writers

    Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie Cont.


    “The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that
    they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only
    story.”- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ihs241zeg
    • Role of childhood in the short stories
    • “The American Embassy” (especially pp. 140-141)
    • “Tomorrow is too Far” (especially pp. 195-197)
    • Narrative Style
    • 1st Person: “Cell One”, “Ghosts”, “The Arrangers of Marriage”
    • 2nd Person: “The Thing Around Your Neck”, “Tomorrow is too
    Far”
    • 3rd Person: “A Private Experience”, “The American Embassy”

    Discussion
    • Library of Congress Country Studies: Nigeria
     http://contemporarylit.about.com/od/authorprofiles/p/
    Chimamanda-Ngozi-Adichie.htm
     http://www.l3.ulg.ac.be/adichie/cnabio.html
     http://www.ted.com/speakers/chimamanda_ngozi_adic
    hie.html

    Sources

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