Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Views on Literature and Her Creative Practice

Abstract

Famous Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie believes that the role of literature is to instruct and delight. Her realist literary creation focuses on Nigeria’s post-colonial cultural and political reconstruction, as well as race, gender and class in a cross-cultural context, which reflects her Igbo, Nigerian and African “sensibility” and a certain cosmopolitan stance. The present article comprehensively investigates Adichie’s views on literature, creative practice and the dissemination and acceptance of her works to achieve an in-depth understanding of the writer.