Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian writer whose works include novels, short stories and nonfiction. She was said to be “the most prominent” of a “procession of critically praised young anglophone authors succeeding in introducing a new generation of readers to African literature”, particularly in her second country, the United States, in The Times Literary Supplement. Early
When an abandoned baby girl is adopted by the Reverend Arlington, a Nigerian woman living in England decides that the Arlingtons would provide the right Christian home for her own baby. But Chester is black, and his new life means a long search for his own identity. synopsis may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author:
Buchi Emecheta was born in Lagos in Nigeria. Her father, a railway worker, died when she was very young. At the age of ten she won a scholarship to the Methodist Girls High School, but by the time she was seventeen she had left school, married and had a child.