Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian author, born in Enugu, Nigeria. After graduating summa cum laude from Eastern Connecticut State University, she went on to obtain master’s degrees from Johns Hopkins University and Yale University.

Adichie debuted her first novel, Purple Hibiscus, in 2003, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Her second novel in 2006, Half of a Yellow Sun, and her third 2013 novel Americanah won the Orange Prize and the US National Book Critics Circle Award, respectively.

She has delivered two landmark TED talks: her 2009 TED Talk The Danger of A Single Story and her 2012 TEDx Euston talk We Should All Be Feminists, which started a worldwide conversation about feminism and was published as a book in 2014. 2021 saw her latest work, Notes On Grief, an essay about losing her father.

In 2015, Adichie was named on TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World list. Two years later, Fortune Magazine named her on its World’s 50 Greatest Leaders.