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Published 29 April 2021
Celebrated Nigerian author, Chimamanda Adichie, has penned an emotional tribute to her late mother, Grace Adichie, who died last month at the age of 78.
Adichie’s mother passed on about eight months after her father, James Adichie, who died last June at the age of 88. The late Professor of Statistics reportedly died from complications of kidney failure while his wife died after a brief illness.
In a Facebook post late Wednesday, the multiple award-winning writer said her “heart break twice”.
In the piece titled, ‘How Does A Heart Break Twice?’, the United States based author wrote, “How does a heart break twice? To still be immersed in grief, barely breathing again, and then to be plunged callously back into a sorrow you cannot even articulate. How can my mother be gone forever, and so soon after my father?