The 3 best books by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

La writer Nigerian Chimanda Ngozi Adichie is already one of the most acclaimed voices in literature made social commitment. Of course, in order to transfer all those transformative intentions from the fiction in which this author mainly moves.

The narrative proposal has to have that background of intra-history linked to protest aspects, if not direct denunciations of what seems to be well known in this case by an author of African origins who, therefore, has a lot to explain about feminism, emigration or discrimination.

Organizational speaker TED, Chimanda combines his literary career with various activities between Africa and the United States. In the purely literary, which as we see becomes a complementary dedication, in Chimanda's bibliography we find great humanizing stories about disparate circumstances in our world, precisely more tending towards dehumanization.

In each story we find denunciation or vindication. But at the same time we always discover traces of resilience, of sublimation, of overcoming uprooting or discrimination.

The human condition is capable of generating all the realities that appear in the stories of Chimanda, but that brilliance of the individual, of the survival instinct made leitmotif ends up transcending and soaking up emotion towards a full awareness of the cruelest paradoxes of our world.

Reading Chimanda is to put yourself in the shoes of disadvantaged people or emigrants in search of some opportunity for themselves or their children, far beyond the coldness of the news or the campaigns asking for help, important aspects for solidarity, without doubt, but unable to delve into that necessary empathy of despair and which, in turn, serves to influence the fortune of the reader who is reading a book quietly sitting at home.

Top 3 Recommended Books by Chimanda Ngozi Adichie

Half yellow sun

In these confusing days in which exclusive nationalisms reappear, Biafra, the country that barely existed for 3 years, becomes a plot background on which Chimada builds an exciting story.

Those turbulent years marked and raised borders with the blood of thousands of people. And there we find the protagonists of this historical fiction of very fresh memory. Ugwu, Richard and Olanna make up a triangle between ideological and love. And so the plot is advancing precisely in two political and emotional aspects.

When the ideological justification supports vital changes made with vehement decision, the passion of a love ends up rounding an existential circle that traps us in its centripetal force.

Under a style that points to the romantic epic, we enter a warlike rawness offset by a light, but powerful contrast of the power of love.

Half yellow sun

Americanah

A title that points to an African-American neologism to serve a sector of the immigrant population from distant southern Africa, but which, however, is used disparagingly by Nigerians who see their compatriots return with their dreams broken from the dream of a United States. Utopian United.

A story about the balance between uprooting and integration. A novel with the deepest romantic overtones, that of broken, alienated, misplaced souls that despite everything persevere in love as the basis for continuing to conceive hope and energy. Ifemelu manages to take the big leap thanks to family contacts and is planted in New York.

Black woman who is unaware of American culture, amazed by the university environment but lacking a space that can feel like home, repudiated on many occasions despite being the great open city of the West and, above all, eager for a reunion with her loved one. Obinze who never seems to arrive due to millions of obstacles.

Ifemelu's meeting with the new man indicates that she may soon return to Nigeria while her acquaintances point to her as the new failed Americanah. Only perhaps that vague idea spurs her to move forward, to fight for many years through which we enter a wonderful story towards the realization of Ifemelu, the free woman, with the inexhaustible dream of her reunion with Obinze.

Americanah

The purple flower

Speaking of feminism, for women originating from the most patriarchal Africa, cannot give rise to any kind of lukewarm or interested biased interpretation. The struggle of women in many African countries is the struggle with a destiny written for women or animals with the same consideration.

Of course, the class protects according to which women, blessed by their social stratum in which the parent can defend them from an institutional cruelty and defended against other women. Kambili is a very powerful character, a Nigerian girl who resides in Enugu (yes, the capital of the unfinished state of Biafra today Nigerian) and who lives under the imperatives of a domineering father to unsuspected extremes.

The figure of his aunt Ifeoma appears like a bud of new air. The woman liberated from inside doors becomes the mirror of what Kambili wants to be as an emblem of a change that should transcend from the inside out, from each home to the will of the people and the government of the country.

Never a more justified rebellion that will confront Kambili and her brother Jaja (with worse consequences for her) with a father who refuses to lose an iota of his authority and his firm considerations on what a family should be.

The purple flower
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