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2. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimamanda_Ngozi_Adic
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is only 42 years old, but she’s already recognized as one of the most
significant African writers of her generation. Born and raised in Nigeria before studying in the
United States, Adichie started her career to some acclaim with Purple Hibiscus. But it was her
second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, that cemented her reputation as a writer. She followed that
with Americanah, which tackled issues of racism, feminism, and cultural uprooting with humor
and self-derision. While best-known as a fiction writer, her short essay We Should All Be
Feminists is also popular, and is distributed yearly to every high schooler in Sweden.
In 2017, Fortune magazine ranked Adichie as one of the 50 most influential people in the world.
