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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on stage with crimson curtain backdrop

Foreign Affairs Symposium

'If you're going to create, failure has to come'

Published Feb 9, 2017

Author, activist, and JHU alum Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talks politics, race, and writing as part of the Foreign Affairs Symposium

A simple invitation

Published Summer 2015

This 60-something page essay is an adaptation of the TEDx talk Adichie gave in 2012 / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Book report

Let's talk about race

Published July 30, 2013

Writing Seminars grad paints rich picture of immigrant experience in third novel, 'Americanah'