Postcolonial Realities in Chimamanda Ngoziadichie's 'Ghost 'in the Thing around Your Neck

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in 1977 in Enugu, Nigeria. She grew up in the university town of Nsukka where both her parents where employees of the university. She is an acclaimed author anda public intellectual with remarkable artistic outputs. The United States, but who revisits Nigeria, her home country, for the plots of most of her fiction. Her literary oeuvre includes Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun, Americana, and a volume of short stories anthologized in The Thing around Your Neck. Her fiction reveals her critical engagement with diaspora issues, feminism and postcolonial problems.