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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The highly acclaimed, provocative essay on feminism and sexual politics - from the award-winning author of Americanah . "A call to action, for all people in the world, to undo the gender hierarchy." - MediumIn this personal, eloquently-argued essay - adapted from the much-admired TEDx talk of the same name - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century. Drawing extensively on her own experiences and her deep understanding of the often masked realities of sexual politics, here is one remarkable authors exploration of what it means to be a woman now - and an of-the-moment rallying cry for why we should all be feminists.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian author. Her best known novels are (2006) , and She was born in Enugu, Nigeria, the fifth of six children to Igbo parents. She studied medicine and pharmacy at the University of Nigeria for a year and a half. At nineteen, Chimamanda left for the U.S. to study communication at Drexel University in Philadelphia for two years, then went on to pursue a degree in communication and political science at Eastern Connecticut State University. Chimamanda graduated summa cum laude from Eastern in 2001, and then completed a master's degree in creative writing at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. It was during her senior year at Eastern that she started working on her first novel, , which was published in October 2003. Chimamanda was a Hodder fellow at Princeton University during the 2005-2006 academic year, and earned an MA in African Studies from Yale University in 2008.
