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Born in Nigeria in 1977, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in the university town of Nsukka, living for a time in a house once occupied by Chinua Achebe. After briefly studying medicine and pharmacy at the University of Nigeria, Adichie moved to the United...

President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Nigerian author and scholar, Wale Adebanwi, on his appointment as Rhodes Professor in Race Relations in the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, describing...

The challenge for African writers, the Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong’o famously asserted half a century ago, is a challenge of language; if violence was the weapon of physical subjugation, then language was the weapon of spiritual subjugation. Alongside...

www.nigeriaheadlines.com Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has described Africa’s most well known novelist, Chinua Achebe, as a storyteller who earned global celebration, adding, however, that those describing Achebe as “the father of African literature”...

The Story Behind The Book, Half of a Yellow Sun Award-winning author, Chimananda Ngozi Adichie speaks about her inspiration and research behind the book, ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’. Both my grandfathers were interesting men, both born...