Chinasa, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Tuesday, 27 Jan 2009

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Literacy is at the heart of the campaign to ensure all the world's children go to school. A specially written story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie offers a remarkable picture of the power of education

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the author of Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for best first book and Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the Orange Broadband prize for fiction. She has also published numerous short stories, essays and poems. She divides her time between Nigeria and the US, where she is pursuing graduate work in the African Studies program at Yale University

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