Making the best of her wider
visibility this year, novelist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, whose Half of A
Yellow Sun is currently on the big
screen is scheduled for a Kenyan presentation.
While it sounds great that Adichie
is promoting her latest work, Americanah abroad- scheduled for presentation at
Kenya’s National Museum on November 29, 2013 – it is curious that she will be
lecturing on '50 years of African Literature'. Adichie b. 1977, should listen to someone who has
experienced 50 years of African literature and not giving a lecture based on accounts of others. Couldn’t the organisers in Kenya have thought of an older
writer to deliver such a lecture?
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| Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
The Nairobi, Kenyan visit will be
coming just as Adichie concludes a reading in the U.S., this month. The young
celebrated Nigerian author, according to sources from Kenya’s literary
community, is expected to be a guest speaker at an event marking the 10 th year
Anniversary of a local group, The Kwani Trust.
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