Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
More than ten years after Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has published her new novel Dream Count. During her one and only book presentation in Belgium, we delve into the power of her storytelling.
This program is a coproduction of Passa Porta and Bozar.
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A timely chronicle of women’s vulnerabilities, a bumper compilation of middle-aged experience, and a publishing event ten years in the making: Dream Count, the latest novel by Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has arrived with high expectations and widespread attention.
fifth novel
Set during the COVID-19 pandemic, Dream Count is built around the friendship of three Nigerian women whose lives haven’t turned out as imagined. It is Adichie’s fifth full-length novel, following Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah, among others. Beyond her fiction, Adichie gained international recognition through her essay and TED talk We Should All Be Feminists, which was sampled by Beyoncé in Flawless.
about the author
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria, 1977) grew up on the campus of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where her father was a professor and her mother was the first female Registrar. She left for the US at the age of 19 and graduated summa cum laude from Eastern Connecticut State University with a degree in Communication and Political Science. She has a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins University and a Master of Arts degree in African History from Yale University. She wrote three prize-winning novels: Purple Hibiscus (2003), Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) and Americanah (2013). She has delivered two landmark TED talks: The Danger of A Single Story (2009) and We Should All Be Feminists (2012), which started a worldwide conversation about feminism and was published as a book in 2014. Her most recent work, Notes On Grief, an essay about losing her father, was published in 2021. Ms. Adichie’s work has been translated into over thirty languages.
Organisation: Passa Porta en Bozar
