Tag: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Mgqolozana, Mabanckou, Golakai make New African’s 100 Most Influential Africans 2016 List
The New African’s 100 most influential Africans list 2016 include a healthy number of those in the book business from all corners of the continent. The fill list was done with the help of guest editor Bibi Bakare-Yusuf and includes Alain Mabankou. Hawa Jande Golakai, Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, Roye Okupe, Thando Mgqolozana, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,…
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the Bailey’s Prize best of the best
There’s yet another gong for our African literary supernova folks. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s second novel Half of a Yellow Sun has been selected the best of the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction, as chosen by the Chairs of judges of the past ten years. Half of a Yellow Sun, won the Women’s Prize for Fiction in…
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Chimamanda Adichie influenced album nominated for Grammy awards
The biggest music awards on the planet are the Grammy Awards. Musicians world over look out for those as a nomination on your resume shows that you are at the top of your game as a person in that most important of industries. The organisers of these prestigious awards have announced the people in the…