Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
b. 1977 · Nigeria · Literature
Half of a Yellow Sun and a feminism that reached a global generation.
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- Chinua Achebe
1930 – 2013 · Literature
Adichie names Achebe as the writer who showed her that her world was literature.
- James Baldwin
1924 – 1987 · Literature
The essayist-as-witness is the public role Baldwin defined.
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