Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Enugu, Nigeria in 1977 to a family of educationists. After her secondary education, she gained admission to study medicine at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. During this time, she worked on the editorial team of The Compass, a magazine owned by the Catholic medical students. She left medicine a year and a half later and proceeded to Drexel University, Philadelphia to study communications and political science.
In 1997, she published her first collection of poems Decisions and a play For Love of Biafra in 1998.
She soon transferred to Eastern Connecticut State University where she graduated with Summa cum laude (the highest distinction) in 2001.
In 2002, she was shortlisted for the “Caine Prize” for her short story You In America. That same…
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