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Bibliography

 

Books
  • Braga, Claudio R.V., A literatura movente de Chimamanda Adichie: A literatura movente de Chimamanda Adichie: pós-colonialidade, descolonização cultural e diáspora (Brasília: Ed. UnB, 2019), 172 pp. In Portuguese.
  • Emenyonu, Ernest N. (ed.), A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Martlesham: Boydell & Brewer, 2017), 300 pp.
  • Onukaogu, Allwell Abalogu & Onyerionwu, Ezechi, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Aesthetics of Commitment and Narrative (Ibadan: Kraft Books, 2010), 412 pp.
  • Orie, Chibueze Prince, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Curio in Phenomenality Competence in Narrative (Enugu: Samdrew, 2011), vii + 272 pp. Tentative reference [source: Yale University Library Catalogue].
  • Rahiminezhad, Vida & Soheila Arabian, Acculturation, Otherness, and Return in Adichie's Americanah: Outside the Homeland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018), 115 pp.
Articles & Essays
Entries in Encyclopedias & Reference Works
  • 'Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi (1977 -   )', Student Encyclopedia of African Literature, ed. by Douglas Killam & Alicia L. Kerfoot (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2007), p. 5.
  • 'Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi (1977 -   )', The Columbia Guide to West African Literature since 1945, ed. by Oyekan Owomoyela (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008), pp. 58-59.
  • Contemporary Black Biography Vol. 64, ed. by Sara Pendergast & Tom Pendergast (Detroit: Gale, 2008), p. 3.
  • Entry in The Oxford Companion to English Literature, 7th ed., ed. by Dinah Birch (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).
  • Entry in Authors and Artists for Young Adults, vol. 80, ed. by Dana Ferguson (Detroit: Gale, 2009).
  • Clemens, Colleen, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Half of a Yellow Sun', Literary Encyclopedia, 13 November 2013.
  • Clemens, Colleen, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Purple Hibiscus', Literary Encyclopedia, 24 February 2014.
  • Clemens, Colleen, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Thing around Your Neck', Literary Encyclopedia, 16 July 2014.
  • Dennihy, Melissa, 'Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2006', in Encyclopedia of Contemporary Writers and Their Works, ed. by Geoff Hamilton & Brian Jones (New York: Facts on File, 2010), pp. 172-174.
  • Ekwe Ekwe, Herbert, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', Literary Encyclopedia, 1 September 2005.
  • Ferreira-Meyers, Karen, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Americanah', Literary Encyclopedia, 1 November 2018.
  • Iyer, Nalini, ''Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi', in Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies, ed. Sangeeta Ray & Henry Schwarz (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2016).
  • Kehinde, Jegede, 'Purple Hibiscus: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', in Selected Female African Novelists, Playwrights, and Poets, ed. by Olaniyi Olakanye Olaluwoye (Ondo, Nigeria: Olaluwoye, 2007).
  • Luebering, J.E., 'Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi', Encyclopedia Britannica Online, 19 July 2016.
  • Schatz, Kate, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigeria', in her Rad Women Worldwide: Artists and Athletes, Pirates and Punks, and Other Revolutionaries Who Shaped History (Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2016).
  • Tunca, Daria, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (née en 1977)', in Guide des littératures d'Irlande et du Commonwealth des origines à nos jours, ed. by Jean Pouvelle & Jean-Pierre Demarche (Paris: Ellipses, 2008), pp. 287-290. In French. Includes a short biography of Adichie, a summary and a brief analysis of Purple Hibiscus. [ request an offprint ]
  • Tunca, Daria, 'Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi (1977 -   )', in Dictionary of African Biography (vol. 1: Abach-Brand), ed. by Henry Louis Gates Jr & Emmanuel K. Akyeampong (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 94-95.
  • Tunca, Daria, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', in Dictionnaire universel des Créatrices, ed. by Mireille Calle-Gruber, Béatrice Didier & Antoinette Fouque (Paris: Les Editions des Femmes - Antoinette Fouque, 2013), pp. 47-48.
  • Tunca, Daria, 'Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi', in The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction 1980–2020, ed. by Patrick O’Donnell, Stephen J. Burn, and Lesley Larkin (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2022), pp. 11-16.
  • White, Laura, 'Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi (1977 -   )', in Encyclopedia of Contemporary Writers and Their Work, ed. by Geoff Hamilton & Brian Jones (New York: Facts on File, 2010), pp. 3-4.
Study Guides
  • A Study Guide for Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's 'A Private Experience' (Michigan: Gale Cengage Learning, 2018).
  • Boulanger-Mashberg, Anica, The Thing around Your Neck, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Cheltenham VIC: Insight, 2014).
  • Elkin, Susan, Purple Hibiscus: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Philip Allan Literature Guide for GCSE (Deddington: Philip Allan Updates, 2011), 94 pp.
  • Johns, Llewellyn, Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Notes (Melbourne: CAE Book Groups, 2007), 17 pp.
  • Kellam, Glenn, The Thing around your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Cambridge Checkpoints VCE Text Guide (Port Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2014).
  • Muscat, Daniela & Stephanie Xerri Agius, The Road to Freedom: A Study Guide to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus (New York & Bloomington: iUniverse, 2010), 91 pp.
Dissertations
  • Adedipe, Ademolawa Michael, 'Creating a New Multicultural Frame: The Cinematographic Suppression of Half of a Yellow Sun', MA thesis, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, 2018, 34 pp.
  • Abiona, Omolara F., 'Of Maps, Margins and Storylines: Sociologically Imagining Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's The Thing Around Your Neck and Americanah', Trinity College, Hartford, USA, 2016, 78 pp.
  • Adeyemo, Taiwo Christiana, 'Marital Subjectivity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus and Neshani Andrea's The Purple Violet of Oshaantu', BA thesis, Federal University Oye Ekiti, Nigeria, 2018, 89 pp.
  • Adler, Lauren C., '"If the Sun Refuses to Rise, We Will Make it Rise": Queer Migration in Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) and GraceLand (2004)', MA dissertation, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA, 2020, 44 pp.
  • Agyemang Jennisbell, Opoku, '"The Danger of a Single Story" in Chimamanda N. Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun', MA dissertation, University of Padova, Italy, 2012-2013, 110 pp.
  • Aistleitner, Miriam, "Wo liegen Möglichkeiten und Grenzen eines Racial Turns in der deutschsprachigen literarischen Übersetzung? Aufgezeigt an Anette Grubes Übersetzung von Chimamanda Ngozi Adichies Roman Americanah', BA thesis, University of Vienna, Austria, 2015, 28 pp. In German.
  • Akinsiku, Beatrice, 'Representations of Blackness in Nigerian Literature: Chika Unigwe and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', MA dissertation, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, USA, 2021, 35 pp.
  • Akpome, Aghogho, 'Narrating a New Nationalism: Exploring the Ideological and Stylistic Influence of Chinua Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah (1987) on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun (2006)', MA thesis, University of Johannesburg, South Africa, 2012, 150 pp.
  • Alexander, Katie, 'Lived Experiences of Male and Female Hybridity within Chimamanda Adichie's Diaspora', Honors thesis, American University, Washington DC, USA, 2013, 49 pp.
  • Allagbé, Ayodele Adebayo 'Lexicogrammatical and Cohesive Properties in Selected Extracts from Chimamanda N. Adichie's Prose Fiction', PhD thesis, Université d'Abomey Calavi, Benin, 2015.
  • Alves Teotonio, Rafaela Cristina, 'Por uma modernidade própria: o transcultural nas obras Hibisco Roxo, de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie e O sétimo juramento, de Paulina Chiziane', MA thesis, Paraíba State University, Campina Grande, Brazil, 2013, 121 pp. In Portuguese.
  • Anghel, Andreea, 'On the Impact of Migration, "Blackness" and Gender on a Young Woman's Identity Construction in the United States - Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', MA dissertation, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, 2021, 81 pp.
  • Arévalo Hidalgo, Jessica, 'Struggling in the Search for an Identity: The Interconnectedness between "Race" and Gender in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah', BA thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, 2015, 26 pp.
  • Armstrong Coffey, Meredith, 'Narrow Nationalisms and Third Generation Nigerian Fiction', PhD thesis, University of Texas, Austin, USA, 2016, 247 pp. Includes a chapter that partly deals with Americanah.
  • Astrick, Tifanny, 'Violence and the Changes of Nigerian Man's and Woman's Roles as Reflected in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus', MA thesis, Andalas University, Indonesia, 2019.
  • Back, Jasmin, '"Hey, I'm African Just Like You": Migration and Identity Construction in Open City and Americanah', MA thesis, University of Leiden, The Netherlands, 2016, 59 pp.
  • Behrend Vaughn, Madison, '"The Grittiness of Being Human": Individualizing Sexual Expectations in Adichie's Novels', MA thesis, Utah State University, Logan, USA, 2019, 43 pp.
  • Bentayeb, Hanane & Meriem Ladjal, 'Immigration and Racial Identity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah', MA thesis, University Mohamed Boudiaf, M'Sila, Algeria, 2018, 102 pp.
  • Biscaldi, Laura, '"Fierce consumers of life": Feminism in the Works of Chimamanda Adichie', MA thesis, University Ca'Foscari, Venice, Italy, 2017, 157 pp.
  • Bock, L.L.M. de, 'The Danger of a Single Story: Single Stories in a Racialized World and Counter Discourses in Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie's Americanah', BA thesis, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2017, 28 pp.
  • Bonvillain, Mary Margaret, 'Shifting Intersections: Fluidity of Gender and Race in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah', MA thesis, Iowa State University, USA, 2016, 67 pp.
  • Božić, Kristina, 'Feminist Pedagogy in the Works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', MA thesis, University of Osijek, Croatia, 2020, 58 pp.
  • Brennan, Carol, 'Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi 1977-', Contemporary Black Biography, vol. 121, ed. Margaret Mazurkiewicz (Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2015), pp. 4-6.
  • Caetano Thibes, Luana, 'As mulheres de Chimamanda: representações de raça, etnia e gênero', State University of Santa Cruz, Ilhéus, Brazil, 2018. In Portuguese.
  • Campbell, Carly Anne, 'There Is No Other: Situational Identity in Adichie's "A Private Experience", BA thesis, Ohio University, Athens, USA, 2013, 59 pp.
  • Campos, Juliana Sant'Ana, 'O Sétimo Juramento de Paulina Chiziane e Hibisco Roxo de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: um olhar sobre a constituição das personagens', PhD thesis, University of São Paulo, Brazil, 2018, 241 pp. In Portuguese.
  • Cassano, Dora, 'The Biafra War: Cultural Memory in Two Novels of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Chinelo Okparanta', MA thesis, Dalarna University, Sweden, 2018, 59 pp.
  • Cassilhas, Fabrício Henrique Meneghelli, 'A interculturalidade em Half of a Yellow Sun, de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', MA thesis, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil, 2016, 126 pp. In Portuguese.
  • Cervenková, Adéla, 'Comparação da imagem da mulher na obra de Paulina Chiziane e Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', MA thesis, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, 2019, 75 pp. In Portuguese.
  • Christino Celestino, Maria Eunice, 'O Perigo de Uma Historia Única/Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', BA thesis, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil, 2018, 52 pp. In Portuguese.
  • Chuppe, Ava, 'Obscured to Outspoken: Buchi Emecheta, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Akwaeke Emezi as Case Studies in Nigerian Feminism', BA thesis, Murray State University, USA, 2024, 66 pp.
  • Coker, Oluwole, 'Post-Independence Engagement Paradigms in Selected Third-Generation Nigerian Novels', PhD thesis, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, 2012.
  • Conwell, Joan, 'Dismantling the Center from the Margins: Patriarchy and Transnational Literature by Women', MA thesis, East Carolina University, USA, 2011, 63 pp. Contains a discussion of Purple Hibiscus.
  • Costa Otero, Susana Luisa, 'An Immigrant Black Woman in America: An Intersectional Analysis of Adichie's Americanah, BA dissertation, University of A Coruña, Spain, 2021, 42 pp.
  • da Rocha Callegari, Lara, 'Identidades Plurais e em Trânsito no Romance Americanah de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Intersecções de Gênero e Raça'/'Plural and in Transit Identities in the Novel Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Intersectionalities of Gender and Race', MA thesis, University of Coimbra, Portugal, 2017, 136 pp. In Portuguese.
  • de Carvalho Maia Ventura, Priscilla, 'We Have Fallen Apart: o legado colonial em Purple Hibiscus de Chimamanda Adichie e Things Fall Apart de Chinua Achebe', MA thesis, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil, 2018, 130 pp. In Portuguese.
  • da Silva Alves, Luciane, 'A escrita desfronteirizante em Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie e Najat El Hachmi', PhD thesis, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Brazil, 2021, 176 pp.
  • De Mey, Joke, 'The Intersection of History, Literature and Trauma in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun', MA thesis, Ghent University, Belgium, 2011, 60 pp.
  • Delgado Ordás, Álvaro, 'Submission and Resistance: Archetypes of Contemporary Nigerian Women in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus and The Thing Around Your Neck', BA thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2015, 19 pp.
  • Diouf, Emilie Ndione, 'African Women Writing Trauma: The Representation of Psychological Trauma in African Women's Fiction', MA thesis, Michigan State University, 2010, 39 pp.
  • do Nascimento Araújo, Sanmanth, 'Construção da identidade feminina em Purple hibiscus, de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: teorias pós-coloniais e feminismo negro', MA thesis, Piauí State University, Brazil, 2019, 97 pp. In Portuguese.
  • Dogan, Mert, 'The Unhomed Self: A Postcolonial Study of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun and Zadie Smith's White Teeth', MA thesis, Karabuk University, Turkey, 2021, 88 pp.
  • Dortu, Victorine, 'To Restore the Dignity of Woman: Feminism in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun', MA thesis, University of Liège, Belgium, 2017, 117 pp.
  • Eisenberg, Eve Judith, 'Descent or Dissent: Patriarchy and genre in Adichie and Achebe', MA thesis, State University of New York, 2008, 64 pp.
  • Embleton, Nadia, 'Re-imagining Nigerian Unity: Identity, Ethno-nationalism and the Depiction of the Nation in Nigerian Novels by Female Authors', SOAS, University of London, UK, 2017, 268 pp. Partly deals with Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun.
  • Etz, Christina Elizabeth, 'Shortstories of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', MA thesis, University of Vienna, Austria, 2016, 90 pp.
  • Evans, Hannah, 'Against the "Single Story": Literary, Virtual, and Physical Space in the Work of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', BA thesis, College of Charleston, USA, 2015, 62 pp.
  • Ferguson Martin, Shauna, 'Redefining the Postcolonial Identity through the Deconstruction of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Novels', MA thesis, East Carolina University, 2015, 65 pp.
  • Filar, Petra, 'Between Cultures: Female Experience in Americanah by C.N. Adichie and The Inheritance of Loss by K. Desai', MA thesis, University of Zagreb, Croatia, 2021.
  • Filippaki, Argyro, 'Tropics of Trauma: Affective Representations in War Narratives, 1917-2006', PhD dissertation, University of Glasgow, UK, 2017. Partly deals with Half of a Yellow Sun.
  • Fischer, Paulina, 'The Wish for Stability: From Alienation to Femininity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus', BA thesis, University of Halmstad, Sweden, 2016, 27 pp.
  • Flodqvist, Emma, 'Formation Within the Nation: Migration and Marginalization in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah', BA thesis, Södertörn University, Sweden, 2018, 33 pp.
  • Floyd, Erica P., 'Domesticity and the Death of the "American Dream" in Post-Recession Fiction', MA thesis, Antioch University, Los Angeles, USA, 2019, 28 pp. Partly deals with Americanah.
  • Ford, Na'Imah Hanan, 'Theory of Yere-Wolo Coming-of-age Narratives in African Diaspora Literature', PhD thesis, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. Contains a discussion of Purple Hibiscus.
  • Foreman, Chelsea, 'Speaking With Our Spirits: A Character Analysis of Eugene Achike in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus', University of Karlstad, Sweden, BA thesis, 16 pp.
  • Francis, Kela Nnarka, 'The African Masking Process: Re-Interpreting Mask and Mas' in Six Anglophone Texts', PhD thesis, Howard University, 2012, 197 pp. Contains a discussion of Purple Hibiscus.
  • Gajir, Terrumun Hembaor, 'Discourse Strategies and the Evocation of Solidarity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Novels', PhD thesis, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, 2017, 278 pp.
  • Gautam, Archana, 'Utopia to Dystopia in Adhichie's [sic] The Thing Around Your Neck', MA dissertation, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2017, 29 pp.
  • Ghiroldi, Marta, 'The Afropolitan Experience in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Igiaba Scego: A Comparative Study', MA thesis, Ca'Foscari University, Venice, Italy, 2017, 103 pp.
  • Gibeault, Michelle Jude, 'The Anonymous Web in Adichie's Americanah', MA dissertation, University of Arkansas, 2019, 47 pp.
  • Goubali Talon, Odile, 'Littérature engagée : Une nouvelle perspective sur la guerre civile au Nigéria (1967-1970)', PhD thesis, University of Cergy Pontoise, France, 2018 , 293 pp.
  • Greenfield, Sheryl, 'Speaking the Unspeakable: The Construction and Presentation of Narratives in Literary and Popular Trauma Novels', MA thesis, Massey University, Manawatu, New Zealand, 2014, 110 pp. Includes a chapter on Purple Hibiscus.
  • Grilli, Fiorenza Germana, 'Blackness and the American Dream: Constructing Black Transnational Identity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah and Chris Abani's GraceLand', MA thesis, University of Padua, Italy, 2019, 147 pp.
  • Harris Satkunananthan, Anita, 'Liminal Dissonance and Doublings: The Fiction of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Helen Oyeyemi', PhD thesis, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 2012, 190 pp.
  • Heesbeen, Laura, 'Een literair gevecht tegen de norm: een analyse van de herpositionering van zwarte vrouwen dankzij Adichie's Americanah', BA thesis, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, 2016, 23 pp. In Dutch.
  • Hollertz, Julia, 'What Am I, What Are You?: A Pedagogical Analysis on How C.N. Adichie's Novel Americanah Comments on the Postcolonial Features; Alterity, Identity, and Racial Prejudice, and their Use in the EFL Classroom', BA thesis, Linnaeus University, Sweden, 2018, 27 pp.
  • Hova, Mevi, 'Redefining the African Diaspora: Migration, Identity, and Gender Narratives in Diasporic West African Women's Fiction', University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA, 158 pp. Partly deals with Americanah and The Thing around Your Neck.
  • Idowu, Tobi, 'Afropolitanist Constructs in Selasi's Ghana Must Go & Adichie's Americanah', BA thesis, University of Ibadan,, Nigeria, 2018, 90 pp.
  • Ihenyen, Osemudiamen Benedict, 'Pragmatics Features of Nigerian English (A Case Study of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah)', BA thesis, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Nigeria, 2017, 59 pp.
  • Ike, Doris Ann, 'Character Formation in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus and Kaine Agary's Yellow-Yellow', thesis, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 2015, 95 pp.
  • Imma, Z'etoile, 'Intimate Men/Intimate Spaces: (Re) Locating African Masculinities and the Politics of the Postcolony in African Feminist Fiction and Film', PhD thesis, University of Virginia, USA, 2012, 279 pp.
  • Ireoluwa, Adeola Oluwatoyin, 'Culture and Discrimination against Women in Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood and Chimamanda Adichie's Purple Hibiscus', BA thesis, University of Ilorin, Nigeria, 2011, 80 pp.
  • Jadjea, Swatiba, 'Portrayal of Nigerian Women in the Selected Works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', PhD thesis, Saurashtra University, India, 2019, 290 pp.
  • Janssen, S.N., 'Writing An Honest Novel About Race: An Analysis of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah, BA thesis, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2015.
  • Jeffery, Eriel, 'An Exploration of Africana Womanist Using The Joys of Motherhood, Women Are Different, and Purple Hibiscus', MA thesis, Bowie State University, USA, 2013, 114 pp.
  • Jernigan Sinclair, Tara, 'Beyond their Control: The Disempowerment of Women in Middle Eastern and African Literature', MA thesis, East Carolina University, Greenvilla, USA, 2012, 85 pp. Contains a chapter on Purple Hibiscus (pp. 59-79).
  • Jha, Kirti, 'Fictional World of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: A Thematic Study of Selected Works', PhD thesis, Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur, India, 2016, 241 pp.
  • Jijakli, Doriane, 'Donner corps et trouver sa voix: L'intersectionnalité dans Americanah de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', MA thesis, Catholic University of Louvain, 2018, 55 pp.
  • Jose, Misha, 'Reclaiming Igbo Womanhood: A Study of Select Works of Flora Nwapa, Buchi Emecheta and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', PhD thesis, University of Calicut, India, 2023, 312 pp.
  • Joshua, Nneoma Uchechukwu, 'Identity, Afropolitanism and the New African Diaspora: Adichie's Americanah, Habila's Travellers and Noo Saro Wiwa's Looking for Transwonderland', MA thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italy, 2021.
  • Kabwila Kapasula, Jessie Zondiwe, 'Transnational Feminist Agency in African and Afro-diasporic Fiction and Film', PhD thesis, State University of New York at Binghamton, 2010, 375 pp. On Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Tsitsi Dangarembga and Edwidge Danticat.
  • Khan, Sadia, 'Struggles of the Past and Present: the African American Woman in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Chimamanda Adichie's Americanah', MA thesis, BRAC University, Bangladesh, 2019, 34 pp.
  • Khumalo, Sibongile, 'Under the Hibiscus: An Eco-critical Reading of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Postcolonial Novels', MA thesis, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa, 2019, 94 pp.
  • Kirlew, Shauna Morgan, '21st-Century Neo-Anticolonial Literature and the Struggle for a New Global Order', PhD thesis, Georgia State University, USA, 2012. Includes an analysis of Adichie's fiction.
  • Knoors, C.M.J.L., 'Making the Invisible Visible: The Presence and Opposition of the Racially Stereotyping Gaze in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah', University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2016, 33 pp.
  • Koskei, Margaret Chepkorir, 'Representation of Female African Immigrant Experience in the West: A Case Study of Chimamanda Adichie's Americanah', MA thesis, University of Nairobi, Kenya, 2014, 108 pp.
  • Krishnan, Madhu, 'Constructions of Self and Community in the Contemporary Nigerian-Biafran War Novel', PhD thesis, University of Nottingham, UK, 2012. Partly deals with Half of a Yellow Sun.
  • Kumar, Vinod V. & S. Gayathri, 'The Silence of Compliance: Child Soldier Trauma Narratives in Contemporary African War Novels', Theory and Practice in Language Studies 11.12 (December 2021), pp. 1540-1547. Partly discusses Half of a Yellow Sun. [ available online ]
  • Kupfer da Silva Rodrigues, Gabriel, 'Por dentro da África: Muito além de uma história única', MA thesis, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2017, 88 pp. In Portuguese.
  • Langley, Olivia, 'Fictions of Belonging: "New Arrival Literature" and Contemporary Discourse on U.S. Immigration', BA thesis, University of Vermont, USA, 2017, 97 pp. Includes a chapter on Americanah.
  • Larsson, Charlotte, 'Surveillance and Rebellion: A Foucauldian Reading of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus', BA thesis, Halmstad University, 2013, 23 pp.
  • Lercher, Silvia, 'The Deconstruction of the Single Story in Half of a Yellow Sun', MA thesis, University of Innsbruck, Austria, 2015, 78 pp.
  • Lombardi, Bernard D., 'Foreseeing Identity in Blank Interstices: New-wave African Migration to the United States and a New Theory of Diaspora', MA thesis, City University of New York, USA, 2014, 92 pp. Contains a chapter entitled 'Understanding Different Generational Experiences for Black Immigrants in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah' (pp. 30-45).
  • Madueke, Sylvia Ijeoma, 'Translating and Publishing Nigerian Literature in France (1953-2017): A Study of Selected Writers', PhD thesis, University of Alberta, Canada, 2018, 292 pp. Partly deals with the work of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
  • Mäkinen, Jetta, 'Through Their Eyes: Igbo Chi and the Loss of Feminine Power in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus', MA thesis, University of Helsinki, 2017.
  • Maritim, Eric Cheruiyot, 'Focalization Schemas, Transnational Formations and Social Remittance in the Works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', PhD thesis, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, 2020, 286 pp.
  • Massa, Ana Sofia Roias, 'To Bloom in America: Raising Black Awareness Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah (2013) and NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need Names (2013)', MA dissertation, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2022, 153 pp.
  • Massey, Alyson, 'Revealing Your Delusions: Perspectives on American Values in Contemporary African Fiction', Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA, MA thesis, 2016, 140 pp. Partly deals with Americanah.
  • Mbesherubusa Mittag, Danielle, '"Soft, Subtle Things That Lodge Themselves into the Soul": Representation of Consciousness in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's The Thing around Your Neck', BA thesis, Lund University, Sweden, 2018, 29 pp.
  • Mboya, Georgiads Kivai, 'The Female Voice and the Future of Gender Relationships in the Nigerian Nation in Chimamanda Adichie's Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun', MA thesis, Kenyatta University, Kenya, 2010, 136 pp.
  • Megasari, Monica, 'Racism in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah', MA thesis, University of Sumatera Utara, Medan, Indonesia, 2018, 77 pp.
  • Mercer-Bourne, Laura Maegan, 'A Cycle of Control: Women's Identity Loss through Colonialism in the Caribbean and Africa', MA thesis, East Carolina University, USA, 2013. Includes an analysis of Purple Hibiscus.
  • Misra, Jahnavi, 'Re-visioning the Ethics of Care: Femininity, Cosmopolitanism and Contemporary Women's Writings', PhD thesis, Durham University, United Kingdom, 2012, 312 pp. Partly deals with Half of a Yellow Sun.
  • Modica, Cassandra, 'Adichie's "United League of the Oppressed": Du Bois and Double-Consciousness in Conversation with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', PhD Thesis, Villanova University, Radnor Township, Pennsylvania, 2019.
  • Müller, Fernanda de Oliveira, 'O florescer das vozes na tradução de Purple Hibiscus, de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', MA thesis, Univeristy of Brasília, Brazil, 2017, 105 pp. In Portuguese.
  • Museta, Clarine Mabuku, 'The Eloquent Woman: A Contemporary Feminine Rhetorical Analysis of Selected Speeches by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', MA thesis, University of Namibia, Windhoek, 2017, 132 pp.
  • Mwetulundila, Rauna, 'Women and Subjugation: An Evaluation of Feminist Rhetoric in Selected Novels by Mary Karooro Okurut, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Unity Dow, Elieshi Lema and Kaleni Hiyalwa', PhD thesis, University of Namibia, Windhoek, 2019, 289 pp. Partly deals with Purple Hibiscus.
  • Mzali, Ines, 'Postcolonial Readings of Resistance and Negotiation in Selected Contemporary African Writing', PhD thesis, University of Montréal, Canada, 2011, 338 pp. Contains a chapter entitled 'Postcolonial Trauma: Negotiating Responsibility as Resistance in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun and Sefi Atta's Everything Good Will Come (pp. 233-304).
  • Nabutanyi, Edgar Fred, 'Representations of Troubled Childhoods in Selected Post-1990 African Fiction in English', PhD thesis, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, 2013, 272 pp. Contains a chapter entitled 'Ritualised Abuse in Purple Hibiscus' (pp. 135-147).
  • Nadaswaran, Shalini, 'Out of the Silence: Igbo Women Writers and Contemporary Nigeria', PhD thesis, University of New South Wales, Australia, 2013, 214 pp.
  • Nenevé, Ana Clarissa, 'In the Name of God: A Postcolonial Reading of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus', MA thesis, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil, 2018, 121 pp.
  • Neupane, Surya Prasad, 'Construction of Community as the Cause of Communal Violence: A Study of Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun', MA thesis, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2010, 81 pp.
  • Ngwira, Emmanuel Mzomera, 'Writing Marginality: History, Authorship and Gender in the Fiction of Zoe Wicomb and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', PhD thesis, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, 2013, 217 pp.
  • Noringriis, Julie H., 'Sex, Rape, and Narrative in Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun', MA dissertation, Truman State University, USA, 2021.
  • Nosalek, Kevin, 'Imagining the Homeland: Myth, Movement, and Migration in Three Novels by Women from the African Diaspora', MA thesis, East Carolina University, USA, 2015, 59 pp. Includes a chapter on Americanah (pp. 28-42).
  • Nwokeabia, Nmachika Nwakaego, 'The Poetics and Politics of 21st Century Nigerian Writing', PhD thesis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, 2014, 180 pp. Includes a chapter entitled 'The Aesthetics of Freedom in Chimamanda Adichie's Purple Hibiscus (pp. 35-73).
  • Nwokocha, Sandra Chinyeaka, 'Feminism in Twenty-first-century Nigerian Novels by Women', PhD thesis, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, 2017. Includes a discussion of Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun.
  • Nzeakor, Ngozi Christiana, 'Accommodationist Styles in Selected Works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo', PhD thesis, Nnamdi Azikwe University Awka, Nigeria, 2021, 264 pp.
  • Nzegenuka, Ruth Neema, 'Representation of Violence on Women in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus', MA thesis, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 2014, 76 pp. Odubajo, Adedayo, 'An Evaluation of Shifting Gender Constructions in Selected Works of Achebe, Adichie and Emecheta', PhD thesis, North-West University, Mahikeng, South Africa, 2023, 127 pp.
  • Ofurum, Cordelia Chukwuemerelam, 'Female Empowerment and Consciousness Raising in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun, MA dissertation, Veritas University, Abuja, Nigeria, 2012, 51 pp.
  • Ojiambo, Jacqueline Kubasu, 'The Art of Narrative Embedding in Chimamanda Adichie's Fiction', MA thesis, University of Nairobi, Kenya, 2014, 95 pp.
  • Okpala, Adaora Susan, 'Redefining the African Woman in Contemporary African Literature: A Study of Adichie's Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun, and Americanah, MA thesis, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa, 2016, 188 pp.
  • Oliveira Pereira, Felipe, 'Traduzindo "Jumping Monkey Hill", de Chimmamanda Adichie para o Portugês do Brasil: Marcadores Culturais e Estílísticos', thesis, University of Brasília, Brazil, 2016, 74 pp.
  • Olorunfemi, Christy Aisha, 'An Examination of Women's Voices in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's The Thing around Your Neck', MA dissertation, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 2018, 140 pp.
  • Omowumi, Jide, 'A Stylistic Analysis of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's The Thing around Your Neck', BA thesis, University of Ilorin, Nigeria, 2011, 62 pp.
  • Onyango, Ouno Victor, 'Portrait of Displacement, Migration and Transculturalism in the Novels of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', Maseno University, Kisumu, Kenya, 2018.
  • Oosterink, Julie, "'Arriving at Your Own Door": Transnational Identity Formation in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah, MA dissertation, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, USA, 2019, 102 pp.
  • Orabueze, Florence Onyebuchi, 'The Dispossessed in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun', PhD thesis, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 2011, 289 pp.
  • Osunbade, Adeniyi, 'Explicatures and Implicatures of Conversations in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun, PhD thesis, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, 2010.
  • Ouaali, Ibtissam, 'The Aftermath of Trauma: Postmemory in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun', BA thesis, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2015, 41 pp.
  • Ouma, Christopher Ernest Werimo, 'Journeying out of silenced familial spaces in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus', MA thesis, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, 2007, 113 pp.
  • Ouma, Christopher Ernest Werimo, 'Childhood in Contemporary Nigerian Fiction', PhD thesis, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2011, 340 pp, passim. Contains various sections on Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun.
  • Omowumi, Jide, 'A Stylistic Analysis of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's The Thing around Your Neck', BA dissertation, University of Ilorin, Nigeria, 2011, 62 pp.
  • Palapala, Joan Linda, 'There Is No Place for African Women: Gender Politics in the Writings of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', PhD thesis, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA, 182 pp.
  • Peters, Audrey, 'Pro Patria: Fatherhood and Fatherland in Chimamanda Adichie's Purple Hibiscus', MA thesis, East Tennessee State University, USA, 2010, 65 pp.
  • Phillips, Delores B., 'In Questionable Taste: Eating Culture, Cooking Culture in Anglophone Postcolonial Texts', PhD dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, USA, 2009. Contains a chapter entitled 'The Excesses of this World: The Cookbook Form's Unwillingness to Report The News', which partly deals with Purple Hibiscus (pp. 137-152).
  • Potter, Kevin M., 'An Ethics of Belonging: Recognition, Representation, and Migrant Literature', MA dissertation, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2015, 100 pp. Partly deals with Americanah.
  • Plaias, Maria, '"The danger of a single story" in Chimamanda N. Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun', MA thesis, University of Padua, Italy, 2012-2013, 110 pp.
  • Pugacheva, Darina, '"If They Don't Tell You, the Hair Will": Hair Narrative in Contemporary Women's Writing', PhD thesis, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA, 2019.
  • Raasu, Saara, 'The Denial of Neoliberalism: Genre in Contemporary American and World Anglophone Novels', PhD thesis, University of Oklahoma, Norma, USA, 2017.
  • Rackley, Lauren, 'Gender Performance, Trauma, and Orality in Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun and Purple Hibiscus, MA thesis, University of Mississippi, USA, 2015, 69 pp.
  • Rehnus, Nadine, '"Vernetzte Lebenswelten" - Identität und Transkulturalität in der Literatur der Migration in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichies und Leila Aboulelas Short Fiction', MA thesis, Humbold University, Berlin, Germany, 2012, 101 pp.
  • Resende, Roberta Mara, 'Gênero e Nação na Ficção de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', MA thesis, Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei, Brazil, 2013, 106 pp. In Portuguese.
  • Riskin, Robin, 'Rendering the US Other: Suburban America through Middle Class Nigerian Eyes: In The Thing Around Your Neck, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', thesis, Haverford College, PA, USA, 2012.
  • Rodrigues de Melo, Ícaro Luiz, 'Transnational Identities: Migration, Misrepresentation, and Identity in Chimamanda N. Adichie's Americanah and Philippe Wamba's Kinship', MA thesis, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, 2019, 111 pp.
  • Rönnhede, Gustav, '"Fragments held in a fragile clasp": The Struggle for Identity in Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun', BA thesis, Lund University, Sweden, 2019, 29 pp.
  • Rosenqvist, Anna, 'Mimicry and Ambivalence: The Effects of Colonisation in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus', BA thesis, Umeå University, Sweden, 2014, 22 pp.
  • Salhi, Imane, 'Silence in Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Nguzi [sic] Adichie', MA thesis, 8 Mai 1945 University, Guelma, Algeria, 2018, 72 pp.
  • Sambrooke, Jerilyn, 'Our Fanatics: Figurations of Religious Fanaticism in Ian McEwan, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Marilynne Robinson', PhD dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, USA, 2017, 96 pp. Chapter 2 partly deals with Purple Hibiscus (pp. 41-65).
  • Sandanger, Kristine, 'Past Tense, Future Perfect? Explorations of Identities in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun, and Zadie Smith's White Teeth', MA thesis, University of Stavanger, Norway, 2017, 111 pp.
  • Sandoval Vela, Isabela, 'Voces femeninas en la guerra: las narraciones de resistencia de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie y Warsan Shire', MA thesis, Pontifical Xavierian University, Bogotá, Colombia, 2019, 91 pp. In Spanish.
  • Santos, Flávia Kellyane Medeiros da Silva, ' Meio Sol Amarelo e a crítica ao pensamento eurocêntrico sobre a África: Biafra e a resistência Igbo', MA thesis, University Estadual da Paraíba, Brazil, 2017, 160 pp.
  • Scheifler, Daniela Severo De Souza, 'Diáspora e branquitude em Americanah de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', MA dissertation, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 2021, 149 pp.
  • Schicho, Teresa Anna, '"I only became black when I came to America": Chimamanda Ngozi Adichies postkolonialer Roman Americanah und seine deutsche Übersetzung', MA dissertation, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria, 2019, 121 pp.
  • Scarsini, Valentina, 'Americanah or Various Observations About Gender, Sexuality and Migration: A Study of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', MA thesis, University Ca'Foscari, Venice, Italy, 2017, 156 pp.
  • Seiringer-Gaubinger, Christina, 'Interculturality in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah', MA thesis, University of Vienna, Austria, 2015, 101 pp.
  • Sinclair, Tara Jernigan, 'Beyond Their Control: The Disempowerment of Women in Middle Eastern and African Literature', MA thesis, East Carolina University, USA, 2012, 84 pp. Chapter 4 focuses on Purple Hibiscus (pp. 59-76).
  • Sitti Hardianti, Achmad Munjid, 'Konstruksi Memori Traumatis Dan Upaya Rekinsiliasi Dalam Novel Half of a Yellow Sun Karya Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Dan Kei: Kutemukan Cinta Di Tengah Perang Karya Erni Aladjai: Studi Perbandinban', MA dissertation, University Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 2021, c. 135 pp.
  • Smit, Willem Jacobus, 'Becoming the Third Generation: Negotiating Modern Selves in Nigerian Bildungsromane of the 21st Century', MA thesis, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, 2009, 128 pp. Contains a chapter entitled 'Negotiating Traditions, Gender and Silences in Purple Hibiscus' (pp. 28-57).
  • Sri Rahayu, Dewi, 'The Identity Problem Experienced by the Main Character in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah', thesis, Jember University, Indonesia, 2016, 58 pp.
  • Staresina, Martina, 'Images of Minority Women in the Contemporary American Ethnic Literature', MA thesis, University of Zagreb, Croatia, 2019. Partly deals with Americanah.
  • Sullivan, Mecca J., 'Interstitial Voices: The Poetics of Difference in Afrodiasporic Women's Literature', PhD thesis, University of Pennsylvania, USA, 2012, 321 pp.
  • Takey, Prashant V., 'Displacement, Suffering, and Disillusionment: A Postcolonial and Psychoanalytical Study of the Select Biafran War Novels', PhD thesis, Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University, Maharashtra, India, 2018. Partly deals with Half of a Yellow Sun.
  • Tenshak, Juliet, 'Bearing Witness to an Era: Contemporary Nigerian Fiction and the Return to the Recent Past', University of Stirling, UK, 2017, 204 pp. Partly deals with Purple Hibiscus.
  • Tetteh-Batsa, Bridget, 'To "Own Yourself A Little More": Afropolitan Feminism in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah', PhD thesis, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, USA, 2018, 153 pp.
  • Tigner, Julia Ann, '"Home is nowhere": Negotiating Identities in Colonized Worlds', MA thesis, University of Georgia, 2007, 50 pp. Contains a chapter entitled 'Tradition or Modernity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus' (pp. 27-48).
  • Tigner, Julia, 'A State of Perpetual Inbetweenness: Black Women Negotiating Liminal Spaces in Contemporary Literature', PhD thesis, Auburn University, USA, 2019.
  • Tlamková, Sabina, 'The Portrayal of Female Family Members in Selected Works by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', MA thesis, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 2016, 77 pp.
  • Tomasin, Cristina, 'Women and Biafra: A Comparative, Literary Study of Women's Roles during the Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970)', BA thesis, Ca'Foscari University of Venice, Italy, 2018.
  • Tomasin, Jessica, 'The danger of a single story: Contemporary Nigeria and the new African diaspora in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's The Thing Around Your Neck', MA thesis, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy, 2011-2012, 162 pp.
  • Toussaint, Marie, 'Le roman de la migritude et la question de l'identité féminine : étude comparée d'On Black Sisters' Street de Chika Unigwe, Americanah de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie et Des Fourmis dans la bouche de Khadi Hane', MA dissertation, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, 2018, 147 pp. In French.
  • Tunca, Daria, 'Style beyond Borders: Language in Recent Nigerian Fiction', PhD thesis, University of Liège, Belgium, 2008, 332 pp. Contains a chapter on Purple Hibiscus and some of Adichie's short stories.
  • Umezurike, Gideon Uzoma, 'The Quest for Authenticity in Americanah and On Black Sisters' Street', BA thesis, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 2015, 43 pp.
  • van Bever Donker, Vincent, 'Ethics and Recognition in Postcolonial Literature: Reading Amitav Ghosh, Caryl Phillips, Chimamanda Adichie and Kazuo Ishiguro', PhD thesis, University of Oxford, UK, 2012.
  • Van de Straat, Roos, 'Feminism and Identity Construction in the Works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', BA thesis, Radboud University, The Netherlands, 43 pp.
  • Van der Werf, Lisa, 'Writing for Change: A Narratological Approach to Repositioning Afropolitan Discourses in Adichie's Americanah, Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other and Selasi's Ghana Must Go', MA dissertation, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2020, 74 pp.
  • van Gils, Martijn, 'In the Shadow of Biafra: The Construction of War Memory in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun', BA thesis, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 2016, 54 pp.
  • Vaughn, Madison Behrend, "'The Grittiness of Being Human' : Individualizing Sexual Expectations in Adichie's Novels", BA Honors thesis, Utah State University, Logan, USA, 30 pp.
  • Vaupotic, Nika, 'Black Identity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Novel Americanah', MA thesis, University of Maribor, Slovenia 2018, 66 pp. In Slovenian.
  • Vogtsberger, Elizabeth Diane, 'Speaking Up, Speaking Out: The Revolutionary Potential of the Adolescent Girl in Postcolonial African Women's Literature', PhD thesis, Lehigh University, USA, 2010, 245 pp. Includes a chapter entitled 'The Power to "Tell": Speaking Desire, Autonomy, and Resistance in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus (pp. 113-166).
  • Vuletic, Snezana, 'From Colonial Disruption to Diasporic Entanglements: Narrations of Igbo Identities in the Novels of Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Chris Abani', University of Stockholm, Sweden, PhD thesis, 2018, 188 pp.
  • Wabara, Olaocha Nwadiuto, 'New Routes to the African Diaspora(s): Locating "Naija" Identities in Transnational Cultural Productions', PhD thesis, Michigan State University, USA, 2017, 263 pp. Partly deals with Americanah.
  • Wader, N.V., 'Gender Dynamics in the Select Novels of Chimamanda Adichie, Sefi Atta, and Chika Unigwe', PhD thesis, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, India, 2020.
  • Wahyuni, Sri, 'Femninist Messages: Women's Oppressing, Empowerment, and Identity as seen in Half of Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', MA thesis, Andalas University, Indonesia, 2019.
  • Wallace, Cynthia R., '"If We Could Learn to Learn from Pain": A Contemporary Literary Ethics of Women's Suffering and Self-Sacrifice', PhD thesis, Loyalo University, Chicago, USA, 2012, 475 pp. Contains a chapter entitled 'Silent (in the Face of) Suffering? Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Postcolonial Cultural Hermeneutics' (pp. 321-399), on Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun.
  • Weingart, Rahel, 'From Postcolonial to Afropolitan. Ways of Belonging: Nation and Identity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Novels Half of a Yellow Sun, Purple Hibiscus and Americanah', University of Bern, Switzerland, 2018.
  • Wirngo Siver, Comfort, 'Self-Migration and Cultural Inbetweenness: A Study of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's The Thing Around Your Neck', MA thesis, University of Yaounde I, Cameroon, 84 pp.
  • Yohannes, Linda, 'A Postcolonial Look at African Literature: Case Study of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Works', MA thesis, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, 2012, 75 pp.
  • Zhu, Yu, 'Empathy and Point of View in Literature: A (Cognitive) Stylistic Analysis of "Clash Moments" in Americanah', PhD thesis, Canterbury Christ Church University, 2018, 262 pp.
  • Zohra, Benbedra Fatima, 'Afropolitanism and the (Re)definition of African Identity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah', Université Abdelhamid Ibn Badis, Mostaganem, Algeria, 2017-2018, 48 pp.
  • Zulfiqar Chaudhry, Sadia, 'African Women Writers and the Politics of Gender', PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, UK, 2013, 254 pp. Partly deals with Half of a Yellow Sun.
Profiles
  • Altman, Howard, 'Amanda's Voice', City Paper (Philadelphia), 10-17 June 1999.
  • Kalu, Uduma, 'Nigerian wins literature prize in the U.S', Guardian (Nigeria), 12 September 2003.
  • Habich, John, 'Young Nigerian's first novel blazes with insight of new and old religion', Star Tribune, 19 October 2003, p. E1.
  • Bolling, Deborah, 'Planting the Seeds', City Paper (Philadelphia), 6 November 2003.
  • Weeks, Jerome, 'Leaving may lead her home: First novel inspires writer to re-energize Nigerian literature', Dallas Morning News, 4 December 2003.
  • 'Sharing her Gift', Universe 4.1, January-February 2004, pp. 3, 9.
  • Roberts, Alison, 'When my father read my novel, he was absolutely was horrified!', Evening Standard, 30 April 2004.
  • Morris, Davina, 'Yinka Sunmonu finds in debut author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie a woman confident of her own ability', Voice, 9 May 2004.
  • Ogundare, Gbenga, 'Three Nigerian female writers become hot properties on the international literary circuit', News (Lagos), 14 May 2004.
  • Nwachukwu Mcphilips, 'G-15 hosts Chimamanda Adichie, triggers literary campaign', Vanguard, 8 August 2004.
  • Atojoko, Salif, 'Adichie's Passion: Writing, More Writing', Newswatch (Nigeria), 13 September 2004.
  • Schoettler, Carl, 'Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Adichie is a story in herself', Baltimore Sun, 4 October 2004.
  • Sniatecki, Ryan, 'Seeking to Write Universal Truths', Baltimore Chronicle, 9 October 2004.
  • Washburn, Lindy, 'The family resembled a homeland torn apart', Record (Bergen County, NJ), 12 December 2004, p. E1.
  • Diop, Coumba, 'Itineraire: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie a le mal du pays', Jeune Afrique L'intelligent 2294/2295 (26 December 4004), pp. 126-127. In French.
  • Garner, Clare, 'Profile of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', in the P.S. section to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus (London: Harper Perennial, 2005), pp. 2-5.
  • Braunstein, Emily, 'Out of Africa', Salient 4, 2005.
  • Fallon, Helen, 'Love in a Time of Terror: the Nigerian novelist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', Africa 70.5 (2005), pp. 18-19.
  • Sibree, Bron, 'Out of Africa: tyranny and innocence', Canberra Times, 5 February 2005, p. 11. A shorter version was previously published as 'Strictly speaking: living with tyranny', South China Morning Post, 2 January 2005, p. 9; an even shorter version was also published as 'The religious divide', Daily Telegraph (Australia), 5 February 2005, p. 78.
  • Harvey, Siobhan, 'Purple Hibiscus author lucky by name', Dominion Post, 19 February 2005.
  • O'Connor, Shaunagh, 'Write of Passage', Herald Sun (Australia), 19 February 2005, p. W29. A different version was also published as 'Another world', Courier Mail, 26 February 2005, p. M6.
  • Steger, Jason,, 'Glorious shock of distinction', Age, 25 February 2005, p. 5.
  • Gilchrist David, 'Forgotten lessons threaten future', New Zealand Herald, 2 March 2005.
  • Keenan, Catherine, 'Ethnic enough', Sydney Morning Herald, 2 April 2005, p. 12.
  • Case, Jo, 'A voice from Africa', Big Issue Australia, 7 April 2005.
  • Eze, James, 'My American fans want to visit Nsukka, Abba after reading Purple Hibiscus', Sunday Sun, 30 October 2005.
  • Jackson, A. Naomi, 'Let There Be Peace, Let There Be Life', Mosaic Literary Magazine 17 (2006), pp. 28-31, 49.
  • 'Author profile: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', World Literature Today 80.2 (March-April 2006), pp. 5-6.
  • Tunca, Daria, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie en Chika Unigwe: stemmen die aandacht verdienen', trans. from the English by Lode Demetter, Rekto:verso: Tweemaandelijks Tijdschrift voor Kunstkritiek 16 (March-April 2006), pp. 18-19. In Dutch.
  • Patterson, Christina, 'Fortunes of war and peace', Independent, 18 August 2006, p. 20-21.
  • 'Out of Africa', Irish Times, 26 August 2006.
  • Peel, Michael, 'Love in the time of war', Financial Times, 9 September 2006, p. 3. Also published in Businessday, 23 September 2006.
  • McGrath, Charles, 'A Nigerian Author Looking Unflinchingly at the Past', New York Times, 23 September 2006, pp. B7, 12. Also published as 'No life away from her books', Age, 8 October 2006.
  • Thompson, Bob, 'From Pages of Fiction, A Volume of Sad Truth', Washington Post, 27 September 2006, p. C1. Also published as 'Compassion for Nigeria burns in "Sun"', Contra Costa Times, 8 October 2006.
  • Habtezghi, Nazenet, 'Lit's It Girl', Essence 37.5 (September 2006), p. 112.
  • Wigod, Rebecca, 'Nigerian writer creates vivid tale of '60s Africa', Vancouver Sun, 19 October 2006, p. D9.
  • Walker, Susan, 'Revisiting the bloody trail of civil war', Toronto Star, 22 October 2006, p. C8.
  • Kimber, Charles, 'Interview: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', Socialist Review, October 2006.
  • Bailey Nurse, Donna, 'Facing down horror', Ottawa Citizen, 5 November 2006, p. C3.
  • Yanofsky, Joel, 'A story she was destined to tell', Montreal Gazette, 18 November 2006, p. K3.
  • Brune, Adrian, 'A chronicle of war imagined through her novel, writer comes to terms with her nation's deepest conflict', Hartford Courant, 26 November 2006, p. G 3.
  • Weyler, Svante, 'Svante Weyler om Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', Sydsvenskan, 22 December 2006. In Swedish.
  • Mwazemba, John, 'Chimamanda Ngozi: Salute a rising star', Standard (Kenya), 23 December 2006.
  • Akubuiro, Henry, 'My love life', Daily Sun (Nigeria), 14 January 2007.
  • Njoku, Benjamin, 'Another laurel for Chimamanda, the queen of storytelling', Vanguard, 28 January 2007.
  • Gonzalez, Susan, 'In her novel, student tells human story of Biafran War', Yale Bulletin and Calendar 35.23 (30 March 2007).
  • 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Latest Novel Remembers Biafran History', Voice of America Press Releases and Documents, 25 April 2007.
  • Kleen, Björn af, 'Litterärt underbarn på Sverigebesök', Sydsvenskan, 29 May 2007. In Swedish.
  • Reynolds, Nigel, 'Blyton tales that led to literary triumph', Daily Telegraph, 7 June 2007, p. 7.
  • Richards, Huw, 'I have to be an optimist', Times Higher Education Supplement 1797, 8 June 2007, pp. 18-19.
  • Moss, Stephen, 'Madonna's not our saviour', Guardian, 8 June 2007, pp. 14-15. Also published in Deccan Herald (India), 16 June 2007.
  • Millard, Rosie, 'This is the Africa you don't hear about', Sunday Times, 10 June 2007, p. 5. Also published in Daily Sun (Nigeria), 20 June 2007.
  • Muhammad, Muhammad K., 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', Daily Trust (Abuja), 10 June 2007.
  • Roy, Nilanjana S., 'Chimamanda Ngozi: Another Africa', Business Standard (New Delhi), 12 June 2007.
  • 'Un autre regard sur l'Afrique', Inrockuptibles 602, 12 June 2007, p. 9.
  • Arana, Marie, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Teller of Tales', Washington Post, 17 June 2007, p. BW11.
  • Nwachukwu, McPhilips, 'Chimamanda Adichie's war story re-draws the map of truth', Vanguard, 17 June 2007.
  • Oksenhorn, Stewart, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Toward a broader view of Africa', Aspen Times 23 June 2007.
  • Nwachukwu, McPhilips & Ovo Adagha, 'Like Achebe, like Adichie', Vanguard, 24 June 2007.
  • 'Chimamanda's Literary Garland', This Day, 4 July 2007.
  • 'Getting to know Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', Kitu Kizuri 6 (July-September 2008), pp. 10-11.
  • Wilton, Caren, New Zealand Listener Vol 210 No 3507, 28 July - 3 August 2007.
  • Ghoshal, Somak, 'The African Writer and the Burden of History', Telegraph (India), 10 August 2007.
  • Eberhart, John Mark, 'Interview: Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie' , Kansas City Star, 8 September 2007.
  • Michael Janairo, 'Family is crucial to Adichie's writings', Times Union, 14 October 2007, p. J1.
  • 'Artist of the Year', Leadership, 2 January 2008.
  • Adeniji, Gbenga, 'Chimamanda clinches another laurel', Daily Sun, 6 April 2008.
  • Triantafyllou, Yannis, 'Γράφω για να μην ξεχάσουμε τη σφαγή της Μπιάφρας' ('Grafo gia na min xehasoume ti sfagi tis Biafras'; translation into English: 'I write so that we don't forget Biafra's massacre'), Eleftherotypia, 22 May 2008. In Greek.
  • Abanobi, Chika, 'Chimamanda reveals secret of her writing skill', Daily Sun, 21 September 2008.
  • Roylance Frank D., & Tyeesha Dixon, 'Genius in our midst', Baltimore Sun, 23 September 2008. On the three Marylanders who have won the 2008 MacArthur Foundation 'genius grant'.
  • De Nike, Lisa & Maria Blackburn, 'Celebrating MacArthur Honors', Arts & Science Magazine 6.1 (Fall 2008).
  • Kort, Michelle, 'Behind the words', Ms. Magazine 18.4 (Fall 2008), p. 68.
  • 'Changing the Paradigms of Literature', Excl International Magazine 33 (circa 2008), pp. 6-7.
  • 'La vincitrice del Nonino Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie racconta il suo romanzo', Il Tempo, 31 January 2009. In Italian.
  • Skidelsky, William, 'The interview: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', Observer (Review), 5 April 2009, p. 7.
  • Sadler, Stephanie, 'Stories of "complicated affection"', Seven Magazine, 14 April 2009.
  • Guest, Kathy, 'A class of her own', Independent, 10 April 2009, p. 26. Published online as 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: How the acclaimed novelist is becoming a role-model and mentor', Independent, 9 April 2009. Also published as 'Giving voice to African women', Sun Daily (Malaysia), 15 April 2009, and as 'Continental Shift', Sydney Morning Herald, 2 May 2009, p. 8, and Brisbane Times, 4 May 2009.
  • Ingström, Pia, 'Krigets och kyrkans Nigeria', Hufvudstadsbladet (HBL), 16 April 2009. In Swedish.
  • Sawers, Claire, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: State of Grace', List 627, 16 April 2009.
  • Isaacson, Maureen, 'It's a big lie that all is fine and fair', Sunday Independent, 19 April 2009, p. 17.
  • Nikkanen, Hanna, 'Biafran aamu', Voima, April 2009. In Finnish.
  • 'Fearless storyteller', Australian, 2 May 2009, p. 1.
  • de Villiers, Melissa, 'Out Of Darkness', Times (Johannesburg), 9 May 2009.
  • Cosic, Miriam, 'Fresh Nigerian voice speaks of "horrible things"', Australian, 20 May 2009, p. 6.
  • 'Biafra remembered', West Australian, 26 May 2009, p. 6.
  • Mosse, Kate, 'Short, Sweet, With a Twist: Former Orange Prize-winner Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie revisits the wellspring of the bestselling Nigerian novels, the short story', Books Quarterly 32 (2009), pp. 72-75.
  • Nawotka, Ed, 'Nigerian author Adichie lets her writing do her talking', Dallas Morning News, 24 June 2009.
  • Barber, John, 'Chimamanda Adichie: a princess of the written word', Globe and Mail, 4 July 2009, p. R1.
  • Amoss, Marianne, 'Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Adichie negotiates the distance between Maryland and Africa', Urbanite Baltimore 61 (July 2009).
  • 'Chimamanda "Writes" For African Voices', This Day, 13 July 2009.
  • Agbro, Joe Jr, 'Marriage can be very dangerous to women', Nation, 19 July 2009.
  • Mukan, Hauwa R., 'Personality: Chimamanda Adichie', NEXT, 27 July 2009.
  • Shea, Renee H., 'A Slender Hope: A Profile of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', Poets & Writers 37.4 (July-August 2009), pp. 42-47.
  • Chatterjee, Madhusree, 'My stories are about class and immigration', Indo-Asian News Service, 7 August 2009. Also published in Thaindian News, 7 August 2009.
  • Macaulay, Femi, 'Now that Chimamanda has a husband', Nation, 20 September 2009.
  • Franklin, Ruth, 'Things come together', New Republic, 240.17, 23 September 2009, pp. 52-55.
  • Parford, Lucy, 'Why Michelle's my first lady', Gloucestershire Echo, 14 October 2009, p. 10.
  • McCauley, Mary Carole, 'Author wrestles with expectation', Baltimore Sun, 25 October 2009.
  • Curtis, Stephen, 'Black Female Writers Continue Literary Legacy', Crisis 117.2 (1 April 2010), p. 13. On Elizabeth Alexander and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
  • Onyebukwa, Vivian, 'I write the way I feel - Chimamanda Adichie', Daily Sun, 10 June 2010.
  • Mutunga, Kamau, 'Africa's best literary flower', Daily Monitor, 12 September 2010.
  • Nawotka, Edward, 'Interview with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of The Thing Around Your Neck', American-Statesman, 9 October 2010.
  • Daniel, Smriti, 'Chimamanda: Tougher than she looks!', Sunday Times (Sri Lanka), 30 January 2011.
  • Umelo, Okechukwu, 'Stories matter: a glimpse into the world of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', Courier 23 (May-June 2011), pp. 36-37. Published simultaneously in French as 'L'importance des histoires: aperçu de l'univers de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', Courrier 23 (May-June 2011), pp. 36-37; in Spanish as 'La importancia de las historias: una mirada al mundo de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', Correo 23 (May-June 2011), pp. 36-37; and in Portuguese as 'Assunto: visão rápida do mundo de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', Correio 23 (May-June 2011), pp. 36-37.
  • Emelike, Obinna, 'The African story as told by Chimamanda Adichie', Business Day, 26 August 2011.
  • Bryce Young, Jessica, 'Things Fall Together', Orlando Weekly, 23 February 2012.
  • 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', L'Uomo Vogue 431 (May-June 2012).
  • Hanna, Julia, 'A Novel About Love, Hair, and Race', Radcliffe Magazine (1 August 2012).
  • Uzoatu, Uzor Maxim, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Beautiful Inside and Outside', Premium Times, 11 September 2012.
  • Calkin, Jessamy, 'Love in the time of cornrows: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on her new novel', Telegraph, 6 April 2013.
  • Mesure, Susie, 'Chimamanda Adichie: "Dark-skinned girls are never the babes"', Independent, 14 April 2013.
  • Cohen, Claire, 'Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: women don't want simpering heroines', Telegraph, 16 April 2013.
  • Ramaswamy, Chitra, 'Chimamanda Ngozie [sic] Adichie on writing about race', Scotsman, 27 April 2013.
  • Kellogg, Carolyn, 'With Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie pokes fun at race', Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2013.
  • Medley, Mark, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Arrivals and departures', National Post, 31 May 2013.
  • Barber, John, 'New novel shows that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie gets the race thing', Globe and Mail, 9 June 2013.
  • Rogo, Paula, 'Chimamanda on authenticity, friendship and the online world', East African, 20 June 2013.
  • Allison, Simon, Daily Maverick, 21 June 2013.
  • Eze, James, 'Chimamanda Adichie: The Price of Genius', Premium Times, 2 September 2013.
  • 'The Artists', Foreign Policy (December 2013), pp. 121-122.
  • Sam-Duru, Prisca, 'Chimamanda Adichie, a Growing Literary Prodigy', Vanguard, 23 January 2014.
  • Brockes, Emma, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: "Don't we all write about love? When men do it, it's a political comment. When women do it, it's just a love story", Guardian [online], 21 March 2014.
  • O'Connell, Alex, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: "I am turning my niece into a little feminist. It's going well"', Times, 11 April 2014.
  • Hobson, Janell, 'Storyteller: A Nigerian-born novelist is becoming one of the most talked-about writers in the U.S.', Ms. Magazine (Summer 2014), pp. 26-29.
  • Graham, David A., 'American Blindness to the Racism All Around Us', Atlantic, 30 October 2014.
  • Küchler, Sigrun, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie bekeert mannen tot feministen', Verrekijkers 29 (December 2014), p. 21. In Dutch. Published online as 'Feminisme Volgens Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', Verrekijkers, 23 December 2014.
  • Mataire, Lovemore Ranga, 'Ngozi Adichie a Master Storyteller', Herald (Zimbabwe), 29 December 2014.
  • Simon, Catherine, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, impériale', Le Monde, 5 February 2015. In French.
  • Kaprièlian, Nelly, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie : "L'amour est une question féministe"', Les Inrocks, 12 February 2015. In French.
  • Le Dem, Gildas, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, féministe africaine heureuse', Regards, 27 February 2015. In French.
  • Zacharie, Didier, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, le monde est sien', Le Soir, 4 March 2015, p. 36. In French.
  • Wagner, Erica, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: I wanted to claim my own name', Vogue, April 2015. [online version: 13 March 2015]
  • Wolfe, Alexandra, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on the World of African Literature', Wall Street Journal, 1 May 2015.
  • Marivat, Gladys, 'Le féminisme rayonnant de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', Le Monde, 22 February 2016. In French.
  • McCreevy, Nora, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', Observer (Notre Dame, USA), 3 March 2016.
  • Reilly, Martha, 'Chimamanda Adichie delivers message of empowerment', Observer (Notre Dame, USA), 6 March 2016.
  • Pilling, David, 'Lunch with the FT: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', Financial Times, 30 June 2016.
  • Yagoda, Maria, 'Feminist Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Breaks Down the Misogyny Dogging Hillary Clinton - Starting with "She Doesn't Smile"', People, 19 August 2016.
  • Kiene, Aimée C., 'Beyoncé's feminisme is niet mijn feminisme', Volkskrant, 7 October 2016. An English version was also published online as 'Beyoncé's feminism isn't my feminism'.
  • Kiene, Aimée C., 'The discussion about feminism has hardly even begun in Africa', Volkskrant, 11 October 2016.
  • Akubuiro, Henry, 'Chimamanda: The artist as a social critic', Sun (Nigeria), 19 November 2016.
  • Economos, Nicole, 'Why Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the beauty ambassador we all need right now', Sydney Morning Herald, 25 November 2016.
  • Brockes, Emma, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: 'Can people please stop telling me feminism is hot?', Guardian, 4 March 2017.
  • Rezzoug, Leslie, 'Qui est Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, icône féministe?', L'Express, 16 March 2017. In French.
  • Cerini, Marianna, 'How to raise a feminist', Hong Kong Tatler, 1 July 2017. Also published as 'A Singular Sensation', Singapore Tatler, 1 August 2017.
  • Falcoz, Julie, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, tête pensante du féminisme pop', Madame Figaro, 5 September 2017.
  • Scevola, Nicola, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', L'Officiel Italia, 16 October 2017.
  • Eggers, Dave, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', T Magazine (New York Times), October 22, 2017, p. M2156. Also published online as 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a Humanist On and Off the Page', New York Times, 16 October 2017.
  • Lacey, Catherine, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', Port Magazine 22 (April 2018).
  • Allardice, Lisa, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: "This could be the beginning of a revolution"', Guardian, 28 April 2018.
  • MacFarquhar, Larissa, 'Writing Home', New Yorker, 4-11 June 2018. Published online under the title 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie comes to terms with global fame'.
  • Marin La Meslée, Valérie, 'A Lagos, avec Chimamanda', Le Point 2388 (7 June 2018), p. 105-110. In French.
  • Perrignon, Judith, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, des racines et des lettres', M Le magazine du Monde 358 (July 2018). In French.
  • 'Adichie's Endless Love for Home Fashion', This Day, 8 September 2018.
  • O'Connell, Alex, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: "Donald Trump has made the conversations about race become unclear"', Times, 22 September 2018.
  • Akubuiro, Henry, 'The last thing Achebe told me - Chimamanda Adichie', Sun News, 29 September 2018.
  • Carty Williams, Candice, 'The Powerful Words of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', i-D, The Earthwise Issue, no. 353, Fall 2018.
  • Calkin, Jessamy, 'Chimamanda on misogyny, the #MeToo fallout, and the ugly side of Trump's America', Telegraph Magazine, 27 October 2018.
  • Drell, Cady, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on What Makes Her Optimistic Right Now', Marie Claire, 13 March 2019.
  • Marks, Olivia, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: "Women Do Not Need To Be Extraordinary To Be Admirable"', Vogue (UK), September 2019. [online version: 2 August 2019]
  • Ajibade, Tunji, 'As UN unmask the real Chimamanda Adichie', Punch, 13 December 2019.
  • Samuels, Tene, 'Chimamanda: Nigeria's most decorated personality?', Vanguard, 31 December 2019.
  • Mgbeahuru, Ransome, & Godwin Okondo, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: A decade of literature, politics and cultural activism', Guardian (Nigeria), 5 January 2020.
  • Allardice, Lisa, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: "America under Trump felt like a personal loss"', Guardian, 14 November 2020.
  • Coles, Richard, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on losing her parents: "We could not do goodbyes"', Times, 17 July 2021.
  • Obi-Young, Otosirieze, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Is in a Different Place Now', Open Country Mag, 20 September 2021.
  • Williams, Zoe, '"I believe literature is in peril": Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie comes out fighting for freedom of speech', Guardian, 28 November 2022.
  • Edwardes, Charlotte, '"Cancel culture? We should stop it. End of story": Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on backlash, writer's block – and her new baby twins', Guardian, 15 February 2025.
  • Egan, Elizabeth, 'How Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Wrote Her Way Through Loss', New York Times, 1 March 2025.
  • Jaggi, Maya, 'Where to start with: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', Guardian, 19 March 2025.
News
  • Reynolds, Nigel, 'Young Nigerian writer eyes top fiction award', Daily Telegraph, 27 April 2004, p. 10.
  • Ezard, John, 'Debut novel from Nigeria storms Orange shortlist', Guardian, 27 April 2004, p. 9.
  • Wood, Molara, 'Chimamanda's Day at the Orange Prize', Guardian (Nigeria), 13 June 2004.
  • Alisi, Cindy, 'Adichie wins Commonwealth Writers Prize', Daily Sun (Nigeria), 5 April 2005.
  • Pauli, Michelle, 'Nigerian debut makes John Llewellyn Rhys shortlist', Guardian, 14 November 2005.
  • Wood, Molara, 'Launching Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun', Guardian (Nigeria), 27 August 2006.
  • Afolayan, Sunday, 'Chimamanda named for Books Critics Circle Award', Daily Sun (Nigeria), 30 January 2007.
  • Ezard, John, 'Nigerian war epic is frontrunner for Orange fiction prize', Guardian, 18 April 2007, p. 13.
  • MacNamara, William, 'Biafran war tale tipped for Orange Prize', Financial Times, 18 April 2007, p. 4.
  • Majendie, Paul, 'Nigeria's Adichie hot favourite for Orange prize', Reuters News, 5 June 2007.
  • 'Nigerian author is Orange winner', Metro, 6 June 2007.
  • 'Nigerian favourite to win Orange fiction prize', Agence France Presse, 6 June 2007.
  • 'Nigerian wins fiction prize for women', Agence France Presse, 6 June 2007.
  • Majendie, Paul, 'Nigerian author wins top women's fiction prize', Reuters Press, 6 June 2007.
  • Majendie, Paul, 'Nigeria's Adichie lands Orange prize', Scotsman, 6 June 2007.
  • Ezard, John, 'Testament to youth as war epic wins Orange prize', Guardian, 7 June 2007, p. 5. Previously published online as 'Nigerian war epic sweeps to Orange prize victory', Guardian, 6 June 2007.
  • 'Adichie Wins U.K. Book Prize', Washington Post, 7 June 2007, p. C3.
  • 'African wins Orange Broadband Prize', Vancouver Sun, 7 June 2007, p. D3.
  • 'Canadian, Nigerian authors win Orange prizes', Times Colonist (Canada), 7 June 2007, p. 45.
  • 'Nigerian novel wins Orange prize', Irish Times, 7 June 2007, p. 13.
  • 'Nigerian wins Orange prize', Irish Independent, 7 June 2007, p. 33.
  • 'Nigerian is the youngest winner of Orange Prize', Birmingham Post, 7 June 2007, p. 12.
  • Aspden, Peter, 'Orange prize goes to Nigerian', Financial Times, 7 June 2007, p. 2.
  • Dugan, Emily, 'Nigeria epic wins Orange prize for youngest writer', Independent, 7 June 2007, p. 7.
  • Ezard, John, 'Testament to youth as war epic wins Orange prize', Guardian, 7 June 2007, p. 11. Also published in Age, 8 June 2007.
  • Hoyle, Ben, 'Nigerian civil war epic wins the Orange prize for fiction', Times, 7 June 2007, p. 8.
  • Ohia, Paul, 'Adichie Wins Orange Prize', This Day, 7 June 2007.
  • Reynolds, Nigel, 'Nigerian author wins top literary prize', Telegraph, 7 June 2007.
  • Sexton, David, 'Yellow grabs the Orange as gifted Adichie wins for novel about Biafra', Evening Standard, 7 June 2007, p. 17.
  • 'Nigerian wins women's literary prize', Australian, 8 June 2007, p. 12.
  • 'Nigeriaanse wint Orange-fictieprijs', Trouw, 8 June 2007.
  • Wood, Molara, 'Chimamanda's Night of Glory', This Day (Lagos), 8 June 2007.
  • 'Nigerian epic a winner', Straits Times (Singapore), 9 June 2007, p. 118.
  • 'Adichie wins Orange for novel set in Biafran civil war', Edmonton Journal, 9 June 2007, p. 44.
  • Anderson, Hephzibah, 'Nigerian author wins literary prize for women', Philadelphia Inquirer, 9 June 2007, p. 25.
  • Pauli, Michelle, 'Adichie in running for second major award', Guardian, 27 June 2007.
  • 'Garlands for Achebe, Adichie' (Editorial), Daily Sun, 11 July 2007.
  • Nwachukwu, McPhilips & Emmanuel Augustino, 'From Fidelity Bank... A Purple Reception for Chimamanda Adichie', Vanguard, 16 July 2007.
  • 'Fidelity Bank Plc and Chimamanda hold Creative Writing Workshop', Vanguard, 26 July 2007.
  • 'Chimamanda Adichie moves for more creativity in Nigeria', Businessday, 26 July 2007.
  • 'Binyavanga, Chimamanda for Fidelity Workshop', This Day, 27 July 2007.
  • Akubuiro, Henry, 'Glamour As Fidelity draws famous writers to Nigeria', Daily Sun, 29 July 2007.
  • Jackson, A. Naomi, 'A Coup for African Letters', AFRican Magazine, date unknown (circa 2007).
  • 'Literary grandees lobby EU-Africa summit', Guardian, 6 December 2007.
  • 'Anambra honours budding novelist', Nigerian Tribune, 4 January 2008.
  • Lasisi, Akeem, 'If you don't want to write about sex, don't follow your character into the bedroom', Punch, 27 August 2008.
  • Cohen, Patricia, '25 Receive $500,000 "Genius" Fellowships', New York Times, 23 September 2008, p. 1.
  • Leiby, Richard, 'For Hopkins Astronomer and 24 Others, The Stars Align', Washington Post, 23 September 2008, p. C1.
  • Irvine, Lindesay, 'Adichie wins a $500,000 "genius grant"', Guardian, 24 September 2008.
  • 'Chimamanda Adichie bags $500,000 "genius" fellowship', Vanguard, 5 October 2008.
  • 'Eastern Alumna Chimamanda Adichie Named 2008 MacArthur Fellow', NewsFlash [Eastern Connecticut University News], October 2008.
  • Brammeier, Lauren, 'Chimamanda Adichie awarded MacArthur Fellowship', World Literature Today 82.6 (November-December 2008), p. 6.
  • Lasisi, Akeem, 'With Nonino, Chimamanda adds another prize to her cap', Punch, 18 January 2009.
  • 'Chimamanda Adichie tours US', Next, 12 July 2009.
  • 'Chimamanda launches third book', Next, 3 July 2009.
  • Adebisi, Yermi, 'Farafina, Silverbird Unveil The Thing Around Your Neck', Daily Independent, 6 July 2009.
  • Ajeluorou, Anote, 'Chimamanda's night of honour at Silverbird Galleria', Guardian (Lagos), 17 July 2009.
  • Oyegbami, Ireyimika, 'Standing up for Chimamanda', Next, 17 July 2009.
  • Akanda, Victor, 'All hail the queen of literature!', Nation, 19 July 2009.
  • 'Why we're organising creative writers workshop', Daily Sun, 2 August 2009.
  • Oyegbami, Ireyimika, 'Literary feast as Farafina workshop ends', NEXT, 30 September 2009.
  • Ajibade, Tunji, 'Chimamanda Reproduces Her Kind', Guardian (Nigeria), 4 October 2009.
  • 'Aidoo, Chimamanda, Three Others for Creative Writing Workshop', Vanguard, 12 May 2010.
  • 'Adichie to teach writing in Abuja', NEXT, 13 May 2010.
  • Medeme, Ovwe, 'Adichie, Aidoo, Others to Grace Creative Writing Workshop', Daily Independent, 19 May 2010.
  • '2face, Chimamanda Adichie up for ThisDay Awards', National Mirror, 6 March 2011.
  • Sams, Ngozi, 'Adichie reads in Yola', NEXT, 13 March 2011.
  • Ajiboye, Bunmi, 'An Afternoon with Adichie', NEXT, 26 March 2011.
  • 'Chimamanda Adichie chosen as Radcliffe fellow', NEXT, 18 March 2011.
  • Shariatmadari, David, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: religious leaders must help end Nigeria violence', Guardian [online], 13 January 2012.
  • Kemp, Stuart, 'Thandie Newton, Chiwetel Ejiofor Land in Nigeria for Half of a Yellow Sun', Hollywood Reporter, 14 May 2012.
  • Opurum, Nkechi, 'Shooting begins for Half of a Yellow Sun', Daily Times (Nigeria), 15 May 2012.
  • Akpan, Aniete, 'Award-Winning Film Producer, Andrea, Others Shoot Half of A Yellow Sun in Calabar', Saturday Magazine (Guardian Nigeria), 21 July 2012.
  • Abimboye, Micheal, 'Chimamanda leads other writers to 2013 Literary Evening in Lagos', Premium Times, 16 August 2013.
  • Abodunrin, Akintayo, 'Hanging out with Chimamanda and Friends', Nigerian Tribune, 25 August 2013. About the Farafina 2013 Creative Writing Workshop.
  • Kellogg, Carolyn, 'Beyonce's song "Flawless" features writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', Los Angeles Times, 13 December 2013.
  • 'Chimamanda's Half of a Yellow Sun to premiere in Nigeria', Nigerian Tribune, 3 July 2014.
  • Kroll, Justin, 'David Oyelowo to Star With Lupita Nyong'o in Americanah', Variety, 15 December 2014.
  • Child, Ben, 'Selma's David Oyelowo set to join Lupita Nyong'o in journey to Americanah', Guardian, 16 December 2014.
  • Flood, Alison, 'Baileys prize crowns Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie as its "best of the best"', Guardian, 2 November 2015.
  • McDonald, Soraya Nadia, 'Every 16-year-old in Sweden will receive a copy of We Should All Be Feminists', Washington Post, 6 December 2015.
  • Carlos, Marjon, 'African Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Delivers a Powerful Message on Dior's Front Row', Vogue, 30 September 2016.
  • Oppenheim, Maya, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie faces backlash for suggesting transgender women are not real women', Independent, 12 March 2017.
  • Kean, Danuta, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie clarifies transgender comments as backlash grows', Guardian, 13 March 2017.
  • Schaub, Michael, 'Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie angers transgender community', Los Angeles Times, 13 March 2017.
  • Begley, Sarah, 'New York City Wants Everyone to Read This Book', Time, 16 March 2017.
  • 'Chimamanda Adichie wins French literary award', Guardian (Nigeria), 7 July 2017.
  • Ward, Maria, 'Ladies' Night: Inside the 2017 Glamour Women of the Year Awards', Vogue (US), 14 November 2017.
  • 'Adaptation of Short Story About Immigration, Culture, and Self-Discovery Comes to the Etcetera Theatre', Broadway World (UK), 11 December 2017.
  • Musumeci, Natalie, 'These are NYC's Favorite Books of 2017', New York Post, 21 December 2017.
  • O'Shea, Ronan J., 'Delta Air Lines Accused of Mistreating Nigerian Passengers by Acclaimed Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', Independent, 29 December 2017.
  • Ogunsemore, John, 'Popular Journalist Blasts Chimamanda Adichie over Lagos Igbo Comment', Herald (Nigeria), 6 January 2018.
  • Flood, Alison, 'Interviewer Asks Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: "Are There Bookshops in Nigeria?"', Guardian, 30 January 2018.
  • Alonge, Sede, 'Of Course We Have Bookshops in Nigeria. But They're For the Lucky Few', Guardian, 31 January 2018.
  • Bivan, Nathaniel, 'Chimamanda Adichie Ditches Farafina for Narrative Landscape', Daily Trust, 16 February 2018.
  • Akinosho, Toyin, 'We Didn't Poach Adichie from Farafina, Says Narrative Press', Guardian (Nigeria), 18 February 2018.
  • Jarema, Kerri, 'Black Panther' Stars Lupita Nyong'o and Danai Gurira Are Adapting Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah for TV', Bustle, 1 March 2018.
  • Mackelden, Amy, 'Lupita Nyong'o and Danai Gurira Will Adapt Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah', Harper's Bazaar, 3 March 2018.
  • Luckett, Jeanne B., 'Eudora Welty Foundation', Eudora Welty Review 10 (Spring 2018), pp. 155-163. See section entitled 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Presented Second Annual Eudora Welty Lecture' (pp. 155-156).
  • Burini, Gladys, 'Chimamanda: A Writer Who Evades Core Social Issues Is A Waste of Time', Daily Nation, 23 March 2018.
  • Augoye, Jayne, 'How "Powerful Media Man" Sexually Assaulted Me - Chimamanda Adichie', Premium Times, 19 April 2018.
  • Taire, Morenike, 'Adichie and Hillary's Twitter: More Feminist Than Thou', Vanguard, 28 April 2018.
  • Flood, Alison, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Wins PEN Pinter Prize', Guardian, 12 June 2018.
  • Augoye, Jayne, 'Chimamanda Adichie Announces Return of Creative Writing Workshop', Premium Times, 26 September 2018.
  • Alakam, Japhet, 'Chimamanda Adichie's Creative Workshop Back With a New Name', Vanguard, 27 September 2018.
  • Fetto, Funmi, 'An Evening With Michelle Obama and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', Vogue UK, 4 December 2018.
  • Moosa, Fatima, & Shaazia A. Ebrahim, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Ducks Questions on Transphobia', Daily Vox, 7 December 2018.
  • Augoye, Jayne, 'Chimamanda Adichie Concludes Creative Writing Workshop in Lagos', Premium Times, 11 December 2018.
  • De Beer, Diane, 'Rainbow Nation And Perfectionism Are Not Welcome at Author Adichie's Table', Business Day, 11 December 2018.
  • Myeni, Thabi, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Isn't Quite the Champion of Feminism You Think - Here's Why', Independent, 23 December 2018.
  • 'Americanah by Chimamanda Adichie is Hay Festival Book of the Month', Brecon & Radnor Express, 4 January 2019.
  • Dasgupta, Koral, 'War of Words Over Post-Colonial Space', Asian Age, 18 February 2018. Also published in Deccan Chronicle, 19 February 2019.
  • Brara, Noor, 'Activist, Author, and Now Jewelry Designer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Hosts a Cocktail Party With Foundrae', Vogue US, 14 March 2019.
  • Agbo, Njideka, 'Lupita Nyong'o Confirms Screen Adapation of Adichie's Americanah', Guardian (Nigeria), 20 March 2019.
  • Talitha, Riya, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Advises To Be a Nuisance, Both in Writing and in Activism', Ubyssey, 17 April 2019.
  • Sola, Aladesohun, 'Weighing Chimamanda Adichie and Her Feminism', Guardian (Nigeria), 9 June 2019.
  • Oke, Tolulope, 'Chimamanda Names Five "Promising Voices in Nigerian Fiction"', Vanguard, 22 July 2019.
  • 'Chimamanda only woman to make top 10 in 100 most influential Africans list', Vanguard, 6 October 2019.
  • Mott, Amanda, 'Acclaimed author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to speak at Penn's 264th Commencement', Penn Today, 11 February 2020.
  • 'Half of A Yellow Sun: Plagiarism allegation against Chimamanda dismissed in new video', Vanguard, 9 June 2020.
  • 'Chimamanda Adichie loses 88-year-old father', Guardian (Nigeria), 12 June 2020.
  • Nicolaou, Elena, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's First Work of Fiction Since Americanah Is Here', O: The Oprah Magazine, 26 October 2020.
  • Flood, Alison, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Voted Women's Prize "Winner of Winners"', Guardian, 12 November 2020.
  • 'Chimamanda Adichie to Receive Africa Freedom Prize', Guardian (Nigeria), 11 December 2020.
  • Okafor, Johnson, 'NSE Honours Chimamanda with Digital Closing Gong Ceremony', Punch, 14 December 2020.
  • 'UK's Sunday Times Names Chimamanda, Queen Elizabeth, Others among Top 50 Women', Vanguard, 23 December 2020.
  • 'Chimamanda, Queen Elizabeth, Rihanna Named among Top 50 Women in the UK by Sunday Times', Guardian (Nigeria), 23 December 2020.
  • Akinyoade, Akinwale, 'Chimamanda Ngozi-Adichie Reveals How She Came About The Name "Chimamanda"', Guardian (Nigeria), 5 January 2021.
  • Flood, Alison, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to publish memoir about her father's death', Guardian, 11 February 2021.
  • 'Nigerian Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Loses Mother', Guardian (Nigeria), 2 March 2021.
  • 'Chimamanda's Mother for Burial May 1st', Vanguard, 17 March 2021.
  • 'Chimamanda Adichie joins Hillary Clinton in conversation at the finale of CGI University Annual Meeting', Vanguard, 15 April 2022.
  • Edeme, Victoria, 'European Catholic varsity honours writer Chimamanda Adichie', Punch, 30 April 2022.
  • 'Catholic University Belgium honours Chimamanda', Vanguard, 1 May 2022.
Review of For Love of Biafra
  • Mueller, Stephen J., Review of Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again by Ola Rotimi and For Love of Biafra by Amanda N. Adichie, Voices: The Wisconsin Review of African Literatures 3, June 2000, pp. 116-119.
Review of Decisions
  • Egonu, I.T.K., 'Decisions', Okike 38 (1998), pp. 98-102.
Reviews of Purple Hibiscus
  • Kirkus Reviews 71.15, 1 August 2003, p. 973.
  • Publishers Weekly 250.33, 18 August 2003, p. 53.
  • San Francisco Chronicle, 21 September 2003, p. M2. Short review. A shorter version also appears in San Francisco Chronicle, 28 September 2003, p. M2, and San Francisco Chronicle, 14 December 2003, p. M2.
  • Lexington Herald-Leader (KY), 19 October 2003, p. E6.
  • Star Tribune, 19 October 2003.
  • Seventeen, November 2003.
  • MBR Bookwatch 13.11, November 2003.
  • MBR Bookwatch 14.4, April 2004, p. 3.
  • Telegraph (Calcutta), 4 June 2004.
  • African Business 303, November 2004, p. 64.
  • Daily Telegraph, 4 December 2004, p. 3. Very short review.
  • South China Morning Post, 20 March 2005, p. 5. Very short review.
  • LiteraturNachrichten 85 (Summer 2005), p. 43. In German.
  • Sunday Mail (Australia), 27 February 2005, p. 81. Short review.
  • Times, 28 January 2006, page turning reads p. 22. Very short review. [ online version: 26 January 2006 ]
  • Concord Monitor, 11 June 2006, p. D04.
  • Saffron Walden Reporter, 2 July 2008.
  • Abrahamsson, Örjan, Corren, 7 June 2010. In Swedish.
  • Ajayi, Jare, Daily Sun (Nigeria), 15 June 2005.
  • Anderson, Hephzibah, 'Beers and crazed love in the house that Jerry built', Observer, 21 March 2004, p. 17. Very short review.
  • Arnold, Sue, 'Foreign journeys', Guardian, 14 June 2008, p. 8. Very review of the audiobook version of Purple Hibscus.
  • Baker, Phil, Sunday Times, 27 March 2005, Culture p. 54. Very short review.
  • Beardsley, Nancy, 'Writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Explores Role of Religion in Nigeria', Voice of America, 13 December 2003. Transcript.
  • Broun, Bill, 'A Moveable Feast', Washington Post, 4 January 2004, p. BW08.
  • Brézault, Eloïse, Notre Librairie 157 (January-March 2005). In French.
  • Carroll, Steven, Age, 8 May 2004, p. 5. Very short review.
  • Chanda, Tirthankar, 'Les fleurs pourpres de la révolte', L'Humanité, 21 October 2004. In French.
  • Cohen, Ellen R., Library Journal 128.13, 15 August 2003, p. 127.
  • Connally, Molly, School Library Journal 49.12 (1 December 2003), p. 176.
  • Cooper, Lisa Pamela, 'Nigerian Novelist: Adichie's debut dazzles', Ubyssey Magazine, 1 October 2004.
  • de A. Oliveira, Leide Daiane & Naylane Araújo Matos, Cadernos de Tradução 38.3 (2018), pp. 477-486. In Portuguese. Review of the Portuguese translation of Purple Hibiscus.
  • Dawes, Kwame, World Literature Today 79.1 (January-April 2005), p. 84.
  • Dillon, Cathy, Irish Times, 19 March 2005, p. 13. Very short review.
  • Döring, Tobias, 'Masken, Mütter, Mythen', Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 29 March 2005, p. 34. In German.
  • Duguid, Lindsay, 'The getting of wisdom', Sunday Times, 29 February 2004, Culture p. 52.
  • Eriksson, Magnus, 'Gripande om kolonialismens konsekvenser', Svenska Dagbladet, 6 February 2005. In Swedish.
  • Eriksson, Therese, 'Blombladens hemligheter', Helsingborgs Dagblad, 28 May 2010. In Swedish.
  • Ezard, John, 'Six of the best', Guardian, 27 April 2004, p.9. Very short review.
  • Farrington, Susan, Sanford Herald, 23 October 2003.
  • Fels, Ludwig, 'Papa schlägt, mama blutet', Zeit, 11 May 2005. In German.
  • Gold, Lauren, 'New Nigerian novelist pays tribute to the past', Palm Beach Post, 26 October 2003, p. 7J. Also published in Kansas City Star, 23 November 2003, p. H9.
  • Gold, Lauren, 'Coming of age in Nigeria: Purple Hibiscus is a lyrical look at a nation of contrasts', San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 November 2003, Books p. 2.
  • Greene, Andrée, 'Homeland', Boston Review 32.2, March-April 2007.
  • Gopal, Reena, 'Escaping the clutches of a repressive and violent father', Sunday Independent (Ireland), 23 May 2004. Short review. Shorter versions were also published as 'The bubble bursts with the ending', Sentinel, 23 May 2004, p. 15, and in Birmingham Post, 22 May 2004, p. 53.
  • Gunnarsson, Björn, Göteborgs-Posten, 28 May 2010. In Swedish.
  • Habich, John, 'Early bloomer', Star Tribune, 19 October 2003, p. 1E.
  • Hamilton, Sheila, Evening Times (Glasgow), 28 February 2004, p. 12. Very short review.
  • Hansen, Jamie S., Voice of Youth Advocates, February 2004, p. 482.
  • Hardyment, Christina, Times, 12 July 2008, Books p. 15. Very short review of the audiobook version of Purple Hibiscus.
  • Hartl, John, New York Times, 23 November 2003, p. 24. Short review.
  • Hewett, Heather, 'Finding her Voice', Women's Review of Books 21.10/11 (July 2004), pp. 9-10.
  • Hoffert, Barbara, 'Weighing in with first fiction', Library Journal 129.5, 15 March 2004, p. 42.
  • Hogan, Cate, Christchurch Press, 23 October 2004, p. 25. Very short review.
  • Hickling, Alfred, Guardian, 26 February 2005, p. 31. Very short review.
  • Hope, Christopher, 'Love in a time of terror', Daily Telegraph, 6 March 2004, p. 9.
  • Hore, Rachel, 'Layers of narrative', Guardian, 1 May 2004, p. 29. Short review.
  • Hrastnik, Nataša, 'Vijolični hibiskus', Delo, 7 December 2005. In Slovenian.
  • Isaacs, Kathleen, 'Purple Hibiscus: A Novel', School Library Journal 51.3 (2005), p. 69.
  • Ismail, Aquila, 'Defining Convictions', Newsline, December 2005.
  • Jones, Trevelyn E., School Library Journal (1 December 2003), p. 176.
  • Khan, Mas, 'No Hope in Nigeria', Fortnight 432 (January 2005), p. 21.
  • Kaplan, Erin Aubrey, 'Cry, Freedom', LA Weekly, 28 May - 3 June 2004.
  • Kessel, Anna, Africa Policy Journal 1 (Spring 2006), pp. 116-118.
  • Levisalles, Natalie, 'Notre père qui êtes odieux: Débuts de la Nigériane Chimamanda N. Adichie', Libération, 23 September 2004. In French.
  • Lewitschnik, Liv, 'When Freedom Flowers', Socialist Review, July 2004.
  • Lorca, Alexie, 'La violence tyrannique d'un père', Lire, November 2004. In French.
  • Lyons, Gráinne, 'Waiting for Freedom to Flower', LIP Magazine 5, March 2005.
  • Madzimbamuto, Farai D., 'Purple Hibiscus: A tale Zimbabweans can relate to', Zimbabwean, 15 April 2005.
  • Mantel, Hilary, 'I have washed my feet out of it', London Review of Books 26.20, 21 October 2004, pp. 21-24.
  • Mcgirr, Michael, Sydney Morning Herald, 8 May 2004, p. 13. Very short review.
  • Minton Quigley, Jenny, 'The heart of a girl, the heart of Nigeria', Hartford Courant, 16 November 2003, p. G.3.
  • Neill, Dan, 'Soap Flakes', Observer (Review), 6 March 2005, p. 18. Very short review.
  • Newnham, David, Nursing Standard 24.15, 16 December 2009, p. 29.
  • Ní Dhuibhne, Éilís, 'A rare flower', Irish Times, 5 June 2004, p. 12.
  • Nwakanma, Obi, 'Chimamanda Adichie: A clear voice out of the deluge', Vanguard, 28 March 2004.
  • Oboe, Annalisa, Il Tolomeo: Le Nuove Letterature inediti articoli recensioni 9 (2005), pp. 46-47. In Italian.
  • O'Regan, Nadine, 'Tale of Nigerian family life fails to ignite', Sunday Business Post, 15 February 2004.
  • Pearlman, Mickey, 'Purple Hibiscus: a vibrant debut', Star Tribune (Minneapolis), 18 October 2003.
  • Power, Chris, Times, 19 February 2005, Weekend Review p. 14. Very short review.
  • Ramesh, Kala Krishnan, Hindu, 2 August 2005, p. 3. Very short review.
  • Redford, Rachel, 'Violence and silence', Observer, 8 June 2008, p. 26. Very short review of the audiobook version of Purple Hibiscus.
  • Roberts, Alison, Evening Standard, 30 April 2004, p. 22.
  • Roberts, Michele, 'Home truths', New Statesman, 29 March 2004, p. 54.
  • Robinson, Karen, 'Worlds old and new', Sunday Times, 29 June 2008, Culture p. 48. Very short review of the audiobook version of Purple Hibiscus.
  • Roy, Sandip, 'Wriggling in the grips of father, god and country', San Francisco Chronicle, 14 September 2003.
  • Rudd, Alyson, Times, 24 December 2005, Books p. 98. Short review.
  • Rudd, Alyson, Times, 4 February 2006, Books p. 11. Followed by reader responses.
  • Schottenius, Maria, DN, 29 May 2010. In Swedish.
  • Schroeder, Heather Lee, Capital Times, 21 November 2003, p. A11.
  • Sidime, Aissatou, 'Tale of change goes beyond personal level', San Antonio Express-News, 23 November 2003, books page 6J.
  • Tepper, Anderson, Time Out New York 420, 16-23 October 2003.
  • Theiss, Nola, Kliatt, 1 January 2005.
  • Thomson, Margie, New Zealand Herald, 22 April 2004.
  • Tsiko, Sifelani, 'Adichie Brings to Fore Contemporary Struggles', Herald (Harare), 9 December 2006.
  • Tunca, Daria, Wasafiri 45 (Summer 2005), pp. 81-83.
  • Uwaezuoke, Okechukwu, ThisDay (Nigeria), 6 December 2005.
  • Venable, Malcolm, Black Issues Book Review 5.5, September-October 2003, pp. 62-63.
  • Villanueva Siasoco, Ricco, 'Voice-over: The best new novels by young women are reaching beyond "sassy" urban fiction', Boston Phoenix, 19-25 September 2003.
  • Walter, Natasha, Vogue, March 2004 [tentative].
  • Washburn, Lindy, 'Out of Africa, a coming-of-age story', Record (Bergen County, NJ), 31 October 2004, p. E3.
  • Weate, Jeremy, 'A Lesson in Love', This Day, 2 June 2004.
  • Werimo, Christopher, 'Novel voice from a vast literary landscape', Sunday Nation (Kenya), 10 July 2005, Lifestyle Magazine p. 12.
  • White, Akilah I., 'All this and poetry too', Bookmarks (May-June 2008), p. 10. Very short review.
  • Wilkinson, Joanne, Booklist 100.2, 15 September 2003, p. 208.
  • Williams, Emyr, Daily Post (Liverpool), 21 May 2004, p. 8. Short review.
  • Williams, Ranti, 'An Igbo Patriarch', Times Literary Supplement 5271, 23 May 2004, p. 23. Also published in French as 'Adolescence en pays ibo: Un tyran épris de liberté', Courier International 705, 6 May 2004.
  • Wirtén, Per, Syndsvenskan, 28 May 2010. In Swedish.
  • Note: Reviews of Purple Hibiscus were also published in the Boston Globe, the Daily Mail, the Glasgow Herald, the Herald Sunday (Portsmouth, NH), the San Antonio Express-News, Bust and INK Magazine. Any additional details are welcome.
Reviews of Half of a Yellow Sun [book]
  • Publishers Weekly 253.26, 26 June 2006, pp. 26-27.
  • Library Journal Reviews, 1 September 2006.
  • 'Biafran Story', South China Morning Post, 10 September 2006.
  • 'A lingering tale of lives torn apart by war', Sun Herald, 24 September 2006.
  • African Business 324, October 2006, p. 65.
  • Arizona Republic, 8 October 2006.
  • Main Report, 9 October 2006. Very short review.
  • 'Novel details stuggle for Biafran independence', Pittsburgh Tribune Review, 15 October 2006.
  • New Yorker 82.33, 16 October 2006, p. 183. Short review.
  • Brisbane News, 18 October 2006, p. 29. Short review.
  • 'Imagined truths of a troubled landscape', Weekend Australian, 21 October 2006.
  • Bookmarks (November-December 2006), p. 37. Very short review.
  • South China Morning Post, 25 February 2007, p. 7. Very short review.
  • South East Advertiser, 20 June 2007, p. 62. Very short review.
  • 'Lost in Africa', Mint (Delhi/Mumbai), 14 July 2007, p. 18. Very short review.
  • Gold Coast Bulletin, 21 July 2007, p. 19. Very short review.
  • Summit Magazine (Cameroon), August-October 2007.
  • Point (The Gambia), 11 April 2008.
  • The Western Mail, 6 September 2008, p. 27. Very short review.
  • Cand, 10 August 2009. In Vietnamese.
  • Abbas Fatin, Nation 283.10, 2 October 2006, p. 34.
  • Abbott, Diane, Observer, 25 November 2007, p. 24. Very short review.
  • Aitken, Lee, People 66.12, 18 September 2006, p. 56.
  • Akubuiro, Henry, 'Echoes of Death', Daily Sun (Nigeria), 31 December 2006.
  • Anderson, Hephzibah, 'Winning tales to make you look back in wonder', Daily Mail, 28 December 2007, p. 76. Very short review.
  • Anionwu, Elizabeth, Nursing Standard 22.14-16 (12 December 2007), p. 29
  • Bailey Nurse, Donna, 'Adichie's second winner', Toronto Star, 3 December 2006, p. D6.
  • Banerji, Ranjona, 'Nigeria's silent war', DNA Sunday, 23 September 2007.
  • Barnacle, Hugo, 'War in their worlds', Sunday Times, 27 August 2006, Culture p.47.
  • Behe, Regis, 'Novel details stuggle for Biafran independence', Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 15 October 2006.
  • Birne, Eleanor, 'Raised Eyebrows', London Review of Books 28.19, 5 October 2006, pp. 23-24.
  • Blythe, Will, Elle Magazine, October 2006.
  • Byram, Lesley, 'Journey into the abyss of people's suffering during war', Cape Times, 22 December 2006.
  • Brennan, Mary, 'Half of a Yellow Sun: The sweeping story of a nation erased', Seattle Times, 22 September 2006.
  • Cameron, Matt, 'Adichie's gripping portrait of Nigerian war', Free-lance Star, 16 November 2006.
  • Campbell, Nich, 'Civil war the backdrop to grim, stunning novel', Nelson Mail, 10 October 2007, p. 27.
  • Carter Roiphe, Emily, 'Three Takes on a Nightmare', Star Tribune (Minneapolis), 22 September 2006, p. 13F.
  • Changnon, Greg, 'Personal pain, growth reflect African warfare', Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 22 October 2006, p. K5.
  • Cheuse, Alan, 'Bright voice echoes from half-world away', Dallas Morning News, 1 October 2006. Also published in World Literature Today 81.1 (January-February 2007), p. 7.
  • Clark, Lucy, Sunday Telegraph, 22 October 2006, p. 103. Very short review.
  • Deandrea, Pietro, L'indice dei libri del mese 25.12 (2008), p. 16. In Italian.
  • de Heus, Hanna, 'Toen ik mijn hele familie verloor', Trouw, 11 November 2006.
  • Dunmore, Helen, 'The consolations of civil war', Times, 26 August 2006.
  • Ellwood, Carlene, 'Tragedy in Africa', Sunday Tasmanian, 5 November 2006, p. A9.
  • Falconer, Delia, 'Uncivil legacy of a colonial past', Australian, 30 June 2007, p. 13.
  • Fitzgerald, Mary, 'War stories', Observer (Review), 11 February 2007, p. 26. Very short review.
  • Fitzgerald, Lee, 'Novel of Nigeria's Civil War', Roanoke Times & World News, 8 April 2007, p. 6.
  • Freeman, John, Star-Ledger, 3 September 2006, p. 6. Short review.
  • Freeman, John, Las Vegas Weekly, 7-13 September 2006.
  • Green, John, 'Top fare from a Nigerian gem', Morning Star, 20 August 2006.
  • Greene, Andrée, 'Homeland', Boston Review 32.2, March-April 2007.
  • Gurnah, Abdulrazak, 'Post-nation depression', Financial Times, 14 April 2007, p. 26. [web version: 13 April 2007]
  • Hallsworth, Caroline, Library Journal 131.14, 1 September 2006, p. 132.
  • Halberg, Jonny, 'Biafra som romankunst', Ny Tid, 21 December 2007. In Norwegian.
  • Haq, Amber, 'Rising Up From the Ashes: A dazzling novel finds humanity in the Biafran war', Newsweek, 23 October 2006.
  • Harding, John, Daily Mail, 18 August 2006. Short review.
  • Hardyment, Christina, Times, 14 July 2007, Books p. 14. Review of the audiobook.
  • Hewett, Heather, 'Orphans of the storm in Nigeria', Newsday, 19 November 2006, p. C.34.
  • Hicks, Heather, 'African novel both personal and political', Aspen Times, 30 December 2006.
  • Hoffert, Barbara, Library Journal, 1 May 2006.
  • Hughes, Juliette, 'Paying a high price for survival', Age, 4 November 2006, p. 31.
  • Hương, Vũ Quỳnh, 'Nửa mặt trời vàng - sứ mệnh của một tác phẩm kinh điển', Lao động, 22 August 2009. In Vietnamese.
  • Irwin, Demetria, 'Love and betrayal in war-torn Africa', New York Amsterdam News 98.46, 8 November 2007, p. 24.
  • Jacobs, Susan, 'Yellow Sun, Orange Prize', New Zealand Herald, 1 July 2007.
  • Jaggi, Maya, 'The Master and his houseboy', Guardian, 19 August 2006, p. 14. Also published as 'Casualties of war', Mail and Guardian (Johannesburg), 13 October 2006.
  • Jayalakshmi, K., 'In the showing', Deccan Herald, 5 August 2007.
  • Jensen, Sigmund, 'Lojalitet og svik', Afternbladet, 13 November 2007. In Norwegian.
  • John, Marie Elena, Black Issues Book Review 9.1 (January-February 2007), pp. 40-41.
  • Kaiza, David, 'Cosy sleep-in with the Biafra war', East African, 21 March 2009.
  • Kellaway, Kate, 'It's off to war she goes', Observer, 13 August 2006, p. 22.
  • Kidd, James, 'Half of a Yellow Sun audiobook does gentle justice to the 2006 novel', Post Magazine (South China Morning Post), 14 October 2017.
  • Klausner, Harriet, MBR Bookwatch 5.11, November 2006.
  • Koning, Christina, Times, 24 February 2007, Books p. 14. Short review.
  • Lee-Potter, Emma, Daily Express, 22 June 2007, p. 50. Very short review.
  • Lewis, Trevor, Sunday Times, 11 March 2007, Culture p. 57. Very short review.
  • Mann, Gregory, Annales: Histoire, Sciences sociales 65.2 (April 2010), pp. 547-549. In French.
  • Marshall, John, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 29 September 2006, p. D1. Very short review.
  • Maslin, Jane, 'The Complex Business of Living While Ware Rages in Nigeria', New York Times, 21 September 2006, p. E6. Also published in International Herald Tribune, 25 September 2006, p. 4.
  • Maury, Pierre, 'Le Biafra en guerre', Soir, 5 December 2008, p. 39. In French.
  • Moore, Lisa, '... and all of a brilliant novel', Globe and Mail, 21 October 2006, p. D7.
  • Moore, Lisa, Globe and Mail, 25 November 2006, p. D3. Very short review.
  • Moyo, Sigcino, 'Awesome Adichie', Now Magazine 26.7, 19-25 October 2006.
  • Murphy, Siobhan, Metro, 22 August 2006.
  • Mwazemba, John, 'Nigeria: Chimamanda Weaves History into New Novel', East African Standard (Nairobi), 15 April 2007.
  • Narain, Stephen, 'Things (Still) Fall Apart', Harvard Book Review 8.2, Fall 2006.
  • Nixon, Rob, 'A Biafran Story', New York Times, 1 October 2006, p. 9.
  • Nwakanma, Obi, Vanguard, 15 April 2007.
  • Nyairo, Joyce W., 'A nation's memory', Times Literary Supplement 5392, 4 August 2006, p. 21.
  • Okeke, Remy, Sunday Sun (Nigeria), 2 September 2007, pp. 44-45.
  • O'Doherty, Niamh & Kenny Padraig, Sunday Tribune, 17 June 2007. Extremely short review.
  • O'okwemba, Khainga, 'Chimamanda Adichie's Visit to Negritude Shrine', Nairobi Star, 30 June 2011.
  • Orchard, Shelley, 'Biafra out of shadows', Advertiser, 4 August 2007, p. W10.
  • O'Sullivan, James, 'Glimpse of Africa's Tragedies', Taranaki Daily News, 27 January 2007, p. 21.
  • Parbeen, Muneera, 'A complete story about the struggle called life', Daily Star (Bangladesh), 10 May 2008.
  • Patterson, Christina, Independent, 9 February 2007, p. 27. Very short review.
  • Peters, Jay, 'From Africa, with Love', Tri-City News, 22 November 2011. Very short review.
  • Pradelle, Hugo, La Quinzaine littéraire 980 (2008), p. 12.
  • Preston, Edwina, 'Infidelity in a time of war', Sydney Morning Herald, 23 September 2006, p. 35.
  • Redmond, Lucille, Evening Herald, 4 August 2007. Short review.
  • Robinson, Karen, Sunday Times, 5 August 2007, Culture p. 47. Very short review of the audiobook.
  • Rubin, Martin, 'The birth and death of an African nation', San Francisco Chronicle, 5 September 2006.
  • Rubin, Merle, 'Nigeria civil war seen from sharpened angles', Los Angeles Times, 12 September 2006, p. E10. Also published as 'Bringing Insight To Rivalry, War and Strife', Hartford Courant, 17 September 2006.
  • Saran, Mitali, 'Slice of Biafra', Outlook India, 25 February 2008.
  • Schwartz, Nils, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie/En halv gul sol', Kväls Posten Expressen, 24 May 2007. In Swedish.
  • Seaman, Donna, Booklist 102.22, 1 August 2006, p. 39.
  • Serugo, Moses, 'Ngozi's half of a yellow sun', Sunday Monitor: Sunday Life, 16-22 September 2007.
  • Sidime, Aissatou, 'Powerful novel tackles Nigeria's bleakest days', San Antonio Express-News, 24 December 2006, Books Page 11J. Also published as 'Twin sisters caught in a vicious civil war', Miami Herald, 9 January 2007.
  • Someshwar, Manreet Sodhi, 'Biafran History', South China Morning Post, 10 September 2006, p. 5.
  • Sonal, Shruti, 'Africa in Half of a Yellow Sun: Moving Beyond Western Perspectives', Economic & Political Weekly 54.29, 20 July 2019.
  • Sooke, Alastair, 'Vandals at the gate', Daily Telegraph, 3 September 2006, p. 10. Also published as 'Young writer endowed with gift of ancient storytellers', National Post, 23 September 2006, p. WP8; and 'A lingering tale of lives torn apart by war', Sun Herald, 24 September 2006, p. 60.
  • Stacey, Daniel, 'Imagined truths of a troubled landscape', Australian, 21 October 2006, p. 10.
  • Stack, Richard, 'Things fall into place', New Haven Independent, 9 October 2006.
  • Susskind, Anne, 'A bloody African secession is laid bare, warts and all', Bulletin 124.44 (25 October 2006).
  • Tay, J.H.C., 'Compelling tale of war', Malaysia Star, 16 June 2007.
  • Taylor, Ihsan, New York Times, 9 September 2007, p. 34. Very short review.
  • Thayil, Sheba, 'Tragic Drama', Hindu, 2 September 2007, p. 5.
  • Thompson, Heather, Telegraph, 18 February 2007, p. 30. Short review.
  • Thompson, Stephen, 'An Africa of masters and servants', Scotland on Sunday, 6 August 2006.
  • Tierney, Martin, Herald, 10 March 2007, p. 12. Very short review.
  • Troberg Djuve, Maya, 'Nigeria i krig og kjærlighet', Dagbladet, 26 November 2007. In Norwegian.
  • Turakhia, Vikas, Plain Dealer, 5 September 2007, p. F3. Very short review.
  • Van Rossum, Walter, Die Zeit 62.23 (2007), p. 65.
  • Vanzanten Gallagher, Susan, "Remember Biafra?", Books & Culture 14.1 (January-February 2008), p. 29.
  • Virag, Karen, 'Biafra's brief day in the Yellow Sun', Edmonton Journal, 22 October 2006, p. E11.
  • Vivan, Itala, 'Ngozi Adichie, la fine di un sogno chiamato Biafra', L'Unità, 21 January 2009. In Italian.
  • Wall, Stephen et al., Australian, 11 October 2006.
  • Waters, Juliet, 'Nigerian darkness and light', Montreal Mirror, 16 November 2006.
  • White, E. Frances, 'While the World Watched', Women's Review of Books 24.3 (May-June 2007), pp. 10-11.
  • Whitney, Susan, 'Biafra war saga is well-told', Deseret Morning News, 8 October 2006, p. E12.
  • Wigod, Rebecca, 'Five to remember', Vancouver Sun, 30 December 2006, p. C8. Very short review.
  • Wilson, Lindsay, 'Worldplay: Half of a Yellow Sun', Metropolitan (Denver, USA) 29.15, 30 November 2006.
  • Woods Butler, Amy, 'Novel about Biafra melds political, personal stories', St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 22 October 2006, p. D8.
  • Wynn, Ron, 'New novel combines elegant romance with brutal historical reflection', City Paper (Nashville), 25 September 2006.
  • Ziino, Giulia, 'Premiata la Adichie, narratrice dell' orrore', Corriere della Sera, 14 January 2009, p. 39. In Italian.
Reviews of Half of a Yellow Sun [film]
  • Abele, Robert, 'Half of a Yellow Sun doesn't add up to a satisfying whole', Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2014.
  • Alawode, Abisola, 'A Yellow Sun And Its Many Controversies', Leadership, 29 August 2014.
  • Banks, Ron, 'Civil war tests loyalties', West Australian, 1 April 2014.
  • Bradshaw, Peter, 'Well-intentioned and heartfelt', Guardian, 11 April 2014, p. 19. [online version: 10 April 2014]
  • Brady, Tara, Irish Times, 11 April 2014.
  • Brooks, Xan, 'On the "road to mediocrity"', Observer (New Review), 13 April 2014, p. 27.
  • Byrnes, Paul, 'Movie tells tale of two sisters', Sydney Morning Herald, 27 March 2014.
  • Campbell-Grant, NU People Magazine, 8 April 2014.
  • Edwards, David, 'Half of a Yellow Sun is a worthy but dull film that won't do Chiwetel Ejiofor's career any favours', Daily Mirror, 11 April 2014.
  • Hall, Sandra, 'Drama lifts once the violence starts', Sydney Morning Herald, 23 March 2014. A different version was also published as 'Brutal mix of political and personal turmoil', Canberra Times, 23 March 2014.
  • Hartl, John, 'Passion smothers politics in war drama', Seattle Times, 10 July 2014.
  • Johnston, Trevor, Time Out (London), 9 April 2014.
  • Felperin, Leslie, Hollywood Reporter, 11 October 2013.
  • Houlihan, Mary, 'Hurrying through epic story of a family during war', Chicago Sun-Times, 19 June 2014.
  • Lodge, Guy, Variety 321.11 (17 September 2013), p. 132.
  • Long, Tom, 'Politics, personal disconnected in Half of a Yellow Sun', Detroit News, 30 May 2014.
  • MacNab, Geoffrey, 'Chiwetel Ejiofor gives another powerful performance', Independent, 10 April 2014.
  • McCahill, Mike, Telegraph, 10 April 2014.
  • O'Sullivan, Charlotte, Evening Standard, 11 April 2014.
  • Quirke, Antonia, 'Thandie Newton and Chiwetel Ejiofor star in a Biafran war drama', Financial Times, 10 April 2014.
  • Phillips, Michael, Chicago Tribune, 31 July 2014.
  • Rich, Jamie S., 'The novel Half of a Yellow Sun gets a lukewarm screen adaptation', Oregonian, 18 July 2014.
  • Rudkin, Francesca, New Zealand Herald, 24 April 2014.
  • Synnot, Siobhan, Scotsman, 6 April 2014.
  • Wilson, Jake, Australian Book Review 360 (2014), p. 50.
Reviews of The Thing around Your Neck
  • Publishers Weekly, 6 April 2009, pp. 27-28.
  • 'The Thing Around Your Neck offers snapshots', Metro, 7 April 2009.
  • Library Journal (1 February 2009), p. 52.
  • 'Novelist stretches her literary muscles', Canberra Times, 11 April 2009, p. 12.
  • 'Nothing short of sparkling', Irish Independent, 18 April 2009.
  • Kirkus Reviews, 1 May 2009.
  • Ms. Magazine, Spring 2009.
  • 'Nigeria's new literary star shines light on African life', Sunday Business Post, 24 May 2009.
  • 'Shades of relationships', Financial Express (India), 7 June 2009.
  • 'Walk like a Nigerian', Hindustan Times, 6 July 2009.
  • 'In which neither Nigeria nor America are perfect', National Post, 1 August 2009, p. WP9. Short review.
  • Saffron Walden Report, 29 September 2009.
  • Abati, Reuben, 'The thing around our necks', Guardian (Nigeria), 20 July 2009.
  • Abbe, Elfrieda, Journal Sentinel, 12 December 2009.
  • Adair-Hodges, Erin, 'Small world', Weekly Alibi 18.31 (30 July - 5 August 2009).
  • Ajibade, Tunji, 'Adichie comes rounded in Cell One', Nigerian Compass, 1 August 2010.
  • Alix, Florian, Afrique contemporaine 246 (February 2013), pp. 176-178. In French.
  • Arnold, Sue, 'Sue Arnold's audiobook choice: Short stories by Anton Chekhov, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Roald Dahl', Guardian, 5 September 2009, p. 9. Very short review of the audiobook.
  • Atwood, Lois D., 'The Thing Around Your Neck: Short stories have men, women in cross-cultural crises', Providence Journal, 23 August 2009, p. D3.
  • Austerlitz, Saul, 'Tales of Nigerian outsiders, trapped between two worlds', Boston Globe, 12 July 2009, p. C7.
  • Bailey Nurse, Donna, 'Western ways no defence from old ghosts: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie continues her chronicles of Nigeria's agony in short story form', Toronto Star, 14 June 2009, p. IN6. Published online as 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie continues her chronicles of Nigeria's agony in The Thing Around Your Neck', Toronto Star, 14 June 2009.
  • Basu, Kankana, 'Told with insight', Hindu, 21 June 2009, p. 5.
  • Bhatt, Neha, 'At home and abroad', Business Standard (New Delhi), 22 August 2009.
  • Bily, Cynthia A., Magill Book Reviews, 1 August 2009.
  • Blatt, Thomas Marco, 'En hang til å forskjønne etnisk herkomst', Dagbladet, 30 November 2009. In Norwegian.
  • Boughton, Vick, 'Rich Tales Out of Africa', People 71.25 (29 June 2009), p. 51.
  • Brennan, Mary,'Adichie's The Thing Around Your Neck: stories of dislocation and "future grief"', Seattle Times, 28 June 2009.
  • Burgin, Richard, 'Nigerians, here and at home', Philadelphia Inquirer, 12 July 2009. Also published as 'Nigerians in crisis the focus of Adichie's heartfelt short-story collection' in San Jose Mercury News, 19 July 2009.
  • Carmin, Jim, Oregonian, 23 July 2009.
  • Chettle, Judith, Richmond Times Dispatch, 26 July 2009. A much shorter version was also published in Richmond Times Dispatch, 13 December 2009, p. H1.
  • Choudhury, Chandrahas, 'Leaving Home: The acclaimed novelist proves herself equal to the demands of the short story', Mint, 19 June 2009.
  • Chudobiak, Anne, Canwest News Service, 17 July 2009. Also published as 'A nigerian munro, Gazette (Montreal), 18 July 2009, p. B5, as 'Collection offers range of themes', Regina Leader Post, 25 July 2009, p. G2, as 'Dispatches from a ravaged land', Calgary Herald, 26 July 2009, p. B7, and as 'Adichie writes big in short stories', Ottawa Citizen, 13 September 2009, p. B2.
  • Cole, Susan G., 'Adichie's worlds', NOW Magazine 28.41 (Toronto), 10-17 June 2009.
  • Coulton, Brian, Metro (US), 16 August 2009. Also publisehd in Metro Canada, 17 August 2009.
  • Crockett, Mary, 'Art of the telling detail', Scotsman, 11 April 2009, p. 12.
  • Cummins, Anthony, 'Real People', Times Literary Supplement 5531, 3 April 2009, p. 20.
  • Dawson, Emma, World Literature Today 83.5 (September-October 2009), pp. 61-62.
  • Dickinson, Ben, 'A young literary lioness expands her territory', Elle, 24 June 2009.
  • Dixler, Elsa, New York Times, 27 June 2010, p. 20. Very short review.
  • Dixon, Isobel, 'Beyond the yellow sun', Financial Times, 25 April 2009, p. 16. [ online version: 27 April 2009 ]
  • Donahue, Deirdre, USA Today, 24 June 2009, p. D6. Very short review.
  • Duguid, Lindsay, 'Fights the good fight', Times, 5 April 2009, p. 49. A shorter version was also published in Sunday Times, 27 September 2009, p. 50.
  • Evaristo, Bernardine, 'Short and Sweet', Times 18 April 2009, p. 11. [ online version: 17 April 2009 ]
  • Forna, Aminatta, 'Endurance tests', Guardian, 16 May 2009, p. 11.
  • Galehouse, Maggie, 'Adichie captivates with tales of her native Nigeria', Houston Chronicle, 25 June 2009, p. 13. Also published as 'Culture shifts through eyes of Nigerians in The Thing Around Your Neck', Miami Herald, 14 July 2009, p. E4.
  • Gausi, Tamara, Time Out (London), 18 June 2009, p. 51.
  • Ghoshal, Somak, 'Different Hells: An aloof, but involved, observer', Calcutta Telegraph, 31 July 2009.
  • Gopalakrishnan, Amulya, 'Halfway From Home: Adichie's stories are comfortable hybrids', Indian Express, 7 June 2009.
  • Goldberg, Carol, Hartford Courant, 21 June 2009.
  • Griswold, Sheridan, '"Be free of a world that increasingly makes no sense"', Mmegi 26.107 (17 July 2009).
  • Guthrie, Becky, National Post (Weekend Post) (Canada), 1 August 2009.
  • Hamilton, Sorcha, 'Choking from change', Irish Independent, 18 April 2009, p. B12.
  • Hartnett, Kevin, Paste Magazine 54, 9 July 2009.
  • Hewett, Heather, 'Tell Our Own Stories', Women's Review of Books 27.2 (March-April 2010), pp. 3-5.
  • Hickling, Alfred, Guardian, 17 October 2009, p. 19. Short review.
  • Ikheloa, Ikhide R., 'These things around our necks', Next, 17 July 2009.
  • Isaacs, Clarke, 'Intelligent, insightful dissection of human condition', Otago Daily Times, 9 May 2009.
  • Kakutani, Michiko, 'Out of Africa, Into a Strange America', New York Times, 3 July 2009, p. C21. Also published as 'Out of Africa: Dueling identity and displacement' in International Herald Tribune, 16 July 2009, p. 11.
  • Kandasamy, Meena, 'Flowers of Violence', New Indian Express, 12 July 2009.
  • Kehe, Marjorie, Christian Science Monitor, 30 July 2009, p. 25.
  • Kolirin, Lianne, 'Poverty, Fear and Loathing in Lagos', Daily Express, 3 April 2009, p. 51.
  • Krauth, Nigel, 'Emotional truths in corrupt world', Australian, 25 April 2009, p. 13.
  • Larson, Charles L., 'Adichie on Her Own', CounterPunch (Weekend Edition), 3-5 July 2009.
  • Lasdun, James, 'The view from somewhere else', Guardian, Features and reviews p. 2.
  • Le Bas, Jessica, 'Seductive storytelling', Nelson Mail, 20 May 2009, p. 14.
  • Leggatt, Johanna, 'Welcome to paradise', Sun Herald, 5 April 2009, p. 11.
  • Li, Yiyun, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 June 2009, p. J3.
  • Lindgren, Michael, 'Big Names, Short Stories: A guide to new collections from some of fiction's top authors', Washington Post, 8 July 2009, p. C4. Very short review. Also published as 'Short story treats that demand to be savoured over a long time', Australian Financial Review, 18 July 2009, p. 34.
  • Lindon, Mathieu, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, out of Nigeria', Libération, 2 January 2013. In French.
  • Lipinski, Jed, Village Voice, 13 May 2009.
  • Lishman, Dianne, 'Short stories to reflect the values in our lives', New Zealand Herald, 13 June 2009. Short review. Also published in Hawke's Bay Today, 13 June 2009.
  • McCutcheon, Sandy, 'Stories of alienation from out of Africa', Courier Mail, 18 April 2009, p. 22.
  • Milofsky, David, 'America as an acquired taste', Denver Post, 26 July 2009, p. E11.
  • Moore, Lisa, 'Short, but deep, wide and strong', Globe and Mail, 1 August 2009, p. F8.
  • Mosse, Kate, Times, 27 June 2009, p. 6. Very short review.
  • Muyumba, Walter, 'Chimamanda Ngozie [sic] Adichie: Compression and Dazzle in the Short Form', Dallas Morning News, 21 June 2009.
  • Nayar, Pramod K., 'Passion minus the melodrama', DNA (Mumbai), 9 August 2009.
  • Nicholl, Kati, 'Tense moments on the edge of civil war chaos', Daily Express, 25 May 2007, p. 52. Short review of the audiobook.
  • O'Grady, Megan, Vogue, June 2009.
  • Ogunlesi, Tolu, 'Nothing around Their Feet', Next, 2 May 2009. Also published in The Lagos Review.
  • Økland, Ingunn, 'Fryktløse noveller', Aftenposten, 14 November 2009.
  • Patterson, Leslie, Library Journal, 15 April 2009.
  • Pearson, Amber, Daily Mail, 11 December 2009, p. 84. Very short review.
  • Phillips, Moira, Charleston City Paper, 22 July 2009.
  • Pierleoni, Allen, San Luis Obispo Tribune, 8 July 2009.
  • Pincus, Robert L., 'Virtues of short story apparent in 2 collections', San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 June 2009, p. E1.
  • Podbrey, Gwen, 'Simple in language, but dizzying in implication', SA Jewish Report, 24-31 July 2009, p. 13.
  • Pradelle, Hugo, Quinzaine Littéraire 1077 (2013), pp. 30-31. In French.
  • Putnam , Conan, Chicago Tribune, 13 June 2009.
  • Ramaswamy, Chitra, Scotland on Sunday, 29 March 2009, p. 12.
  • Redford, Rachel, Observer, 30 August 2009, p. 24. Very short review of the audiobook version.
  • Reed, David, 'Finding freedom in all the wrong places', New Zealand Herald, 23 May 2009. Also published in Northern Advocate, 23 May 2009.
  • Rivers, Bronwyn, 'Storyteller takes a short stick to injustice', Sydney Morning Herald, 28 March 2009, p. 26. Also published as 'Small gems, great riches', Age, 4 April 2009, p. 25.
  • Roberts, Michele, Literary Review (May 2009), p. 54.
  • Rosenberg, Amy, 'Hopes and Impediments', National (United Arab Emirates), 17 April 2009.
  • Row, Jess, 'African/American', New York Times, 30 August 2009, p. BR16 [published online on 27 August 2009]. Also published as 'Adichie: A story of the African/American', Nation, 6 September 2009.
  • Salter Reynolds, Susan, 'They struggle for freedom against invisible tethers', Los Angeles Times, 30 August 2009, p. E6. Also published in Chicago Tribune, 30 August 2009.
  • Sandell Greenberg, Bev, 'Nigerian writer literary voice to be reckoned with', Winnipeg Free Press, 19 July 2009, p. D4.
  • Sandison, Natalie, Times, 10 October 2009, p. 10.
  • Schappell, Elissa, Vanity Fair, June 2009. Length unknown.
  • Seaman, Donna, Booklist, [date unknown].
  • Shepherd, Tory, Advertiser, 25 April 2009, p. 27. Very short review. A shorter version was also published in STM Entertainment Magazine, 3 May 2009, p. 19.
  • Shields, Paula, Sunday Business Post, 13 December 2009. Very short review.
  • Shilling, Jane, 'As easy as birdsong', Daily Telegraph, 4 April 2009, p. 23. [ online version: 2 April 2009 ] A very short version was also published in Daily Telegraph, 27 June 2009, p. 2.
  • Shivani, Anis, 'Telling No Tall Tales About Africa', Brooklyn Rail, 9 May 2009.
  • Sigauke, Emmanuel, Farafina 17 (2009).
  • Simon, Catherine, 'Mauvaises filles', Le Monde, 25 January 2013. In French.
  • Singer, Dale, 'Writer contrasts Africa, America', St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 12 July 2009, p. E7.
  • Straume, Anne Cathrine, 'Friskt og fandenivoldsk fra Nigeria', NRK, 18 November 2009. In Norwegian.
  • Tripney, Natasha, Observer, 18 October 2009, p. 23. Very short review.
  • Turakhia, Vikas, 'Five new story collections dangle your escape', Cleveland Plain Dealer, 10 September 2009.
  • Urquhart, James, Financial Times, 19 October 2009.
  • van Niekerk, Annemarié, 'Schipperend tussen twee werelden', Trouw, 20 February 2010. In Dutch.
  • Van Rossum, Walter, 'Das Klopfen der Geister', Die Zeit 18, 2 May 2012. In German.
  • Vanzanten, Susan, 'Heavy Laden: A collection of stories from Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', Books & Culture 15.4 (July-August 2009), p. 30.
  • Widger, Tom, Sunday Tribune, 25 October 2009. Very short review.
  • Wong, Abby, 'Short and Sweet', Malaysia Star, 14 June 2009.
  • Zähringer, Martin, 'Zwischen Heimat und Diaspora', Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 21 August 2012. In German.
  • Zvomuya, Percy, 'The Chimamnda [sic] collection', Mail & Guardian, 4 September 2009.
Reviews of Americanah
  • Publishers Weekly 260.12, 25 March 2013, p. 41.
  • Kirkus Reviews 81.8, 15 April 2013, p. 5.
  • 'Curlicues', Economist 407.8835, 11 May 2013, p. 90.
  • Humo, 17 November 2013. In Dutch.
  • 'Du Nigeria aux States', La Meuse, 17 April 2015, p. 21. In French.
  • Adebayo, Morenike, 'Always judge a book by its cover', York Vision, 11 May 2013. Short review.
  • Akbar, Arifa, Independent, 12 April 2013.
  • Allfree, Claire, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah explores the infinite gradations of prejudice - but it's exhausting', Metro, 11 April 2013.
  • Annand, Davis, Telegraph, 19 April 2013.
  • Attari, Karishma, DNA, 3 November 2013.
  • Beason, Tyrone, 'Americanah: Africans' struggle to become American', Seattle Times, 2 June 2013.
  • Beer, Tom, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah: immigrant tale', Newsday, 23 May 2013.
  • Besner, Neil, 'Nigerian novel critiques U.S. attitudes toward race', Winnipeg Free Press, 18 May 2013.
  • Bissell, Sally, Library Journal 138.8, 1 May 2013, p. 67.
  • Brogi, Daniela, 'There is never just one story: About Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', translated by Laura Giacalone, Doppiozero, 19 February 2016.
  • Busnel, François, 'Rentrer au pays avec Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', L'Express, 5 February 2015. In French.
  • Chandra, Anupama, 'Beaten black & blue with the race bat', Asian Age, 16 June 2013.
  • Chung, Catherine, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 May 2013. Also published in Houston Chronicle, 31 May 2013.
  • Clark, Alex, Guardian (Review), 13 April 2013, p. 6.
  • Coffey, Meredith, E3W Review of Books (Spring 2014).
  • Cole, Susan G., 'Adichie awes', Now Magazine 32.37 (16-23 May 2013).
  • Cummins, Anthony, Spectator, 4 May 2013.
  • Cunningham, Sophie, 'Lessons in New Lands', Sydney Morning Herald, 27 April 2013. Also published as 'Subtle shades of migrant life', Age, 27 April 2013.
  • Day, Elizabeth, Observer (New Review), 14 April 2013, p. 35.
  • Dickinson, Ben, 'American Odyssey', Elle, 26 April 2013.
  • Donaldson, Emily, 'A bold exploration of identity through race, hair and culture', Toronto Star, 31 May 2013.
  • Elias, Esther, 'The many colours of black identity', Hindu, 27 June 2014.
  • Evans, Diana, 'Out of Africa, into America and London', Times, 6 April 2013.
  • Fischer, Mike, 'Americanah tackles challenge of fitting in from Nigerian viewpoint', Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee), 17 May 2013. Also published in Times Dispatch (Richmond), 30 June 2013.
  • Garner, Dwight, New York Times (Sunday Book Review), 5 March 2018, p. 14.
  • Gopalakrishnan, Amulya, 'A Language of Foreign Things', Indian Express, 20 July 2013.
  • Gordon, Andrea, 'Americanah a tale of Nigerian sweethearts', Toronto Star, 10 July 2014.
  • Grant, Drew, New York Observer, 15 May 2013.
  • Grenier, Daniel, 'Poétique de la tresse en 20 circonvolutions', Spirale 259 (Winter 2017), pp. 39-42. In French.
  • Gruppetta, Chris, 'Slush Pile', Times of Malta, 4 September 2016.
  • Habash, Gabe, Publishers Weekly, 13 May 2013. Very short review.
  • Hilyard, Nann Blaine, Library Journal 139.10 (1 June 2014), p. 58. Review of the audiobook.
  • James, Chantal, Paste Magazine, 28 July 2014.
  • Jones, Radhika, 'Love in the Time of Globalization', Time, 13 May 2013, p. 51.
  • Kaur, Karanjeet, 'Yes we 'canah', Time Out Mumbai, 5 July 2013.
  • Kay, Barbara, 'Exploring Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's powerful new book about race', National Post, 12 November 2014.
  • Kirsch, Adam, 'From Nigeria to New York', Prospect, June 2013.
  • Lamarche, Caroline, 'Americanah', Le Vif 27 (2 July 2020).
  • Lano, Janine, 'Lit Pick of the Week: Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', Highlander, 15 January 2018.
  • Leith, Sam, 'Homeward Bound', Financial Times, 5 April 2013. [ online version ] A shorter version was also published on 28 February 2014.
  • Liu, Max, 'Drips and puddles', Times Literary Supplement 5742, 19 April 2013, p. 21.
  • Lowdon, Claire, 'A kind of loving', New Statesman, 12-18 July 2013, p. 52.
  • Maerz, Melissa, Entertainment Weekly 1259, 17 May 2013, p. 76.
  • Maslin, Janet, 'Braiding Hair and Issues About Race', New York Times, 20 May 2013, pp. C1, C4.
  • Maunsell, Jerome Boyd, 'Becoming an outsider wherever you go', Evening Standard, 4 April 2013.
  • Maury, Pierre, 'Une Afrique en Amérique', Le Soir, 17-18 January 2015, p. 38. In French.
  • Moorthy, Megan, 'Adichie explores race realities', Asian Age, 26 June 2013.
  • Morris, Paula, 'The Afropolitans', New Zealand Listener, 24 April 2013.
  • McGill, Hannah, Scotland on Sunday, 6 April 2013. [ online version ]
  • Muteshi, Musabi, 'African Yet Global', New Times (Rwanda), 31 December 2014.
  • Nisbet, Gemma, 'An intimate tale of race relations', West Australian, 29 May 2013.
  • Norridge, Zoe, Wasafiri 29.1 (March 2014), p. 80-83.
  • Ogbe, Yemisi, 'Americanah and other definitions of supple citizenships', Chimurenga Chronic, 8 October 2013.
  • Okigbo, Karen Amaka, 'Americanah and Ghana Must Go: Two Tales of the Assimilation Experiences of African Immigrants', Sociological Forum 32.2 (June 2017), pp. 444-448.
  • Omotoso, Yewande, 'Splitting hairs', Times (South Africa), 14 May 2013.
  • Ono, Mika, 'African Pride', Essence Magazine 44.2 (June 2013), p. 57.
  • Parisis, Ysaline, 'Back to Black', Focus Vif 9 (27 February 2015), pp. 38-39. In French.
  • Pearson, Amber, Daily Mail, 25 April 2013. Short review.
  • Pearson, Laura, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2013.
  • Peed, Mike, 'Realities of Race', New York Times, 9 June 2013, p. 12.
  • Raboteau, Emily, Washington Post, 10 June 2013. Also published as 'Americanah about race, the immigrant's quest', Concord Monitor, 30 June 2013.
  • Sacks, Sam, 'The Reluctant American', Wall Street Journal 261.114, 15 May 2013, p. A13.
  • Sadana, Rashmi, 'On race and colour in Ngozi Adichie's Americanah', DNA (India), 31 January 2014.
  • Schulz, Kathryn, 'Girl With Curious Hair', New York Magazine 46.18, 3 June 2013, p. 137-141.
  • Seaman, Donna, Booklist 109.15, 1 April 2013, p. 18.
  • Seligman, Craig, 'MacArthur Genius Storms Princeton in Nigerian Love Story', Bloomberg Businessweek, 20 May 2013.
  • Shank, Jenny, Dallas Morning News, 25 May 2013.
  • Shank, Michael, 'Coming to America', Baltimore City Paper, 5 June 2013.
  • Simon, Geneviève, 'Le miroir de la différence', Libre Belgique, 9 January 2015. In French.
  • Stefens, Daneet, Independent, 13 April 2013.
  • Subramaniam, Manasi, 'The lives of others', Mint, 13 July 2013.
  • Timpane, John, 'Americanah a sprawling novel on poisonous racism', Philadelphia Inquirer, 9 June 2013.
  • Voigt, Claudia, 'Der Roman Americanah der nigerianischen Autorin Adichie: Wie traegst du deine Haare?', Spiegel 17 (19 April 2014), pp. 124-125. In German.
  • Warnica, Richard, 'Americanah reminds us that every immigrant is an emigrant, too', McLean's 126.24 (June 2013).
  • Williamson, Eugenia, Boston Globe, 18 May 2013.
  • Wilwol, John, Washingtonian (May 2013).
  • Wolff, Carlo, 'Americanah: A Nigerian novelist writes like a dream', Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 2 June 2013.
  • Yanovsky, Joel, 'Adichie's Americanah is love against background of racial politics', Montreal Gazette, 15 June 2013.
Reviews of We Should All Be Feminists
  • Burke, Julia, 'A Flawless Case for Feminism', Progressive 79.4 (April 2015), pp. 41-43.
  • da Silva Carneiro, Tom Jones, 'Chimamanda Adichie: Sejamos todos feministas', Cadernos de Tradução 37.2 (2017), pp. 318-328. Reviews the Portuguese translation.
  • Diaz, Shelley, School Library Journal 62.2 (February 2016), p. 110. A shorter version was published in School Library Journal 61.12 (December 2015), p. 40.
  • Domingues, Mariana, 'Educação e relações de gênero em uma perspectiva feminista', Praça: Revista Discente da Pós-Graduação em Sociologia da UFPE 1.1 (2017), pp. 176-182. In Portuguese.
  • Hawksley, Rupert, 'Why we should all be feminists', Telegraph, 31 October 2014.
  • Kirby, Megan, 'We should all read Adichie's Feminists', Chicago Tribune, 22 August 2014.
  • Lewis, Cicely, 'A Teen Feminist Reading List', School Library Journal 65.6 (22 July 2019), p. 13. Very short review.
  • Mulvania, Andrew, 'Tiny Books, Big Pleasures: On Recent Trends in Publishing Toward the Tiny', The Missouri Review 42.1 (Spring 2019), pp. 182-194 (pp. 185-187).
  • Murdoch, Sarah, Toronto Star, 1 May 2015.
Reviews of Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
  • 'Raise your children as feminists: Adichie's appeal in Dear Ijeawele', Times of India, 14 May 2017.
  • Aguilar, Marianne T., 'Dear Ijeawele Sets a Standard for Feminism', Harvard Crimson, 29 March 2017.
  • Ahumibe, Nonye C., African Literature Today 36 (2018), pp. 259-263.
  • Benn, Melissa, 'A new wave of feminist manifestos address women and power', New Statesman, 16 March 2017. [online version: 19 March 2017]
  • Bennett, Emily & Beth Turnbull, Globe, 5 December 2017.
  • Bhuta, Aishwarya, Indian Journal of Gender Studies 25.2 (2018), pp.319-320.
  • Calheiro, Ineildes & Eduardo Oliveira, 'Olhar africano no tornar-se feminista: Por uma nova geração no mundo de Chimamanda', Tabuleiro de Letras 11.2 (2017), pp. 229-235.
  • Calheiro, Ineildes & Eduardo Oliveira, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Um manifesto para educar crianças feministas', Poiésis-Revista do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação 12.22 (July 2018), pp. 434-439. In Portuguese.
  • Carter, Sue, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie aims to reclaim the word feminism', Metro (Canada), 4 May 2017.
  • Cowles, Gregory, 'Want a Feminist Daughter, Dad? Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Has Advice for You, Too', New York Times, 26 March 2017, p. BR24. [online version: 17 March 2017]
  • Goyal, Sana, Brief Encounters 2.1 (2018).
  • Greenberg, Zoe, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Blueprint for Feminism', New York Times, 15 March 2017.
  • Hadley, Tessa, 'A feminist manifesto', Guardian, 4 May 2017.
  • Houston, Shannon, 'Dear Ijeawele: How Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Latest Dares Us to Raise a Feminist Generation', Paste Magazine, 8 March 2017.
  • Katara, Nikhil, Free Press Journal, 3 September 2017.
  • Khanna, Priyanka, 'The important book every young mother should read', Vogue (India), 12 May 2017.
  • Krug, Nora,'Women, stop worrying about being liked - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's advice for living boldly', Washington Post, 8 March 2017.
  • Lewis, Carly, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jessa Crispin, Camille Paglia and Rebecca Solnit explore the state of modern feminism', Globe and Mail, 10 March 2017.
  • Marin La Meslée, Valérie, 'Tu seras féministe, ma fille !', Le Point Afrique, 8 March 2017.
  • Okuyama, Lucinda, & Yusuke Okuyama, Journal and Proceedings of GALE 13 (2021), pp. 87-90.
  • Rankine, Marion, 'Crackling with morality', Times Literary Supplement, 2O March 2018.
  • Weigel, Moira, 'Feminism Takes Form in Essays, Questions and Manifestos', New York Times, June 11, 2017, p. BR26. [online version: 7 June 2017]
Reviews of Zikora
  • 'Staff Picks from the Book Review', New York Times (Sunday Book Review), 10 January 2021, p. 19. [online version: '9 Books We Recommend This Week, New York Times, 7 January 2022]
  • Law, Katie, 'Zikora: A Short Story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie review: a taut tale of sexism and single motherhood', Evening Standard, 29 October 2020.
  • Osigwe, Kelechi Chioma, English Academy Review 38.1 (2021), pp. 81-85.
Reviews of Notes on Grief
  • Kirkus Reviews, 2 March 2021. [online version: 15 March 2021]
  • 'An elegant, moving contribution to the literature of death and dying', Kirkus Reviews, 15 March 2021. [online version: 3 March 2021]
  • Times of India, 3 July 2021.
  • Arieff, Allison, 'In Notes on Grief, an unexpected family tragedy during the pandemic', San Francisco Chronicle, 3 May 2021.
  • Ashenburg, Katherine, 'A Novelist Mourns Her Father', Times Literary Supplement, no. 6179, 3 September 2021, p. 23.
  • Broom, Sarah M., 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: "My Madness Will Now Bare Itself"', New York Times, 9 May 2021.
  • Coles, Richard, Sunday Times, 16 May 2021.
  • Datta, Sudipta, 'Grief and sorrow as a celebration of love and relationships', Hindu, 10 July 2021.
  • Dawoor, Yagnishsing, World Literature Today 91.1 (January-February 2022), p. 70.
  • Gerrard, Nicci, 'A moving account of a daughter's sorrow', Guardian, 9 May 2021.
  • Gray Streeter, Leslie, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie writes her way through grief', Washington Post, 11 May 2021.
  • Gray Streeter, Leslie, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Notes on Grief captures the bewildering messiness of loss', Independent, 16 May 2021.
  • Hewitt, Seán, 'A loss for words: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's reflections on grief', Tablet, 10 June 2021.
  • Hughes, Juliette, 'Flattened by death? A universal response captured in brilliant prose', Sydney Morning Herald, 30 July 2021.
  • Lozada, Carlos, 'In grieving for her father, a novelist discovers the failure of words', Washington Post, 6 May 2021.
  • Oyemade, Titilade, 'We won't know until we get there', Business Day, 2 April 2022.
  • Percy, Martyn, Church Times, 29 October 2021.
  • Rumbelow, Helen, '"The worst has happened. My father is gone"', Times, 13 May 2021.
  • Scholes, Lucy, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Notes on Grief nails the pain of pandemic bereavement', Telegraph, 16 May 2021.
  • Taylor, Catherine, 'The Malicious Surprise', Guardian 15 May 2021.
  • Tepper, Anderson, 'Two iconic novelists, Adichie and Lahiri, step off their pedestals', Los Angeles Times, 30 April 2021.
Reviews of Mama's Sleeping Scarf
  • Kirkus Reviews, 15 July 2023. [online version: 21 June 2023]
  • Eze, Chinelo, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Heartwarming Children's Tale: Mama's Sleeping Scarf', Guardian (Nigeria), 23 November 2023.
Reviews of Dream Count
Miscellaneous
  • Ufine, Ayodele, 'For Purple Hibiscus, the Reading Now Begins', This Day (Nigeria), 13 July 2004.
  • 'Caine Prize Nominee, Adichie, Advises Youngsters', Daily Champion (Lagos), 21 July 2004.
  • Adeleke, Bayo, 'Dibiaezue Libraries Host Purple Hibiscus Author', This Day (Nigeria), 21 July 2004.
  • 'We Raised Her A Bookworm', Interview with Ifeoma Grace Adichie (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's mother), by Azuka Ogujiuba, ThisDayOnline, 25 September 2004.
  • Peel, Michael, 'Young writers leave their mark', Financial Times, 12 July 2007, p. 10. Partly about Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun.
  • Akubuiro, Henry, 'Is Chimamanda the new Achebe? Literary community reacts', Daily Sun, 17 June 2007.
  • 'Bleak publishing houses', Economist, 22 November 2007.
  • 'Adichie: I Was Ashamed of My State', This Day, 4 January 2008.
  • Abanobi, Chika, 'Mama Chimamanda: Meet the mum of the whizzkid writer, Chimamanda Adichie', Daily Sun, 1 April 2008.
  • Chiedu, 'Adichie got it wrong this time', Nation, 26 June 2008, p. 26.
  • Odeh, Nehru, 'A Training for Writers', News, 15 September 2008.
  • Mullan, John, 'Guardian Book Club: Half of a Yellow Sun - Week 1: Language', Guardian, 10 October 2009, p. 6.
  • Mullan, John, 'Guardian Book Club: Half of a Yellow Sun - Week 2: Points of view', Guardian, 17 October 2009, p. 6.
  • Mullan, John, 'Guardian Book Club: Half of a Yellow Sun - Week 3: Readers' responses', Guardian, 24 October 2009, p. 6.
  • Ajibade, Tunji, 'Chimamanda talks power of literature in Abuja', Nigerian Compass, 21 May 2010.
  • Ajao, Aderinsola, 'Adichie holds court at Farafina's literary evening', NEXT, 6 June 2010.
  • Ajiboye, Bunmi, 'Talking through Adichie's stories', NEXT, 12 December 2010.
  • 'Being African author comes with baggage: Nigeria's Chimamanda Adichie', Prokerala News, 24 January 2011. On Adichie's talk at the Jaipur Literature Festival.
  • Umachandran, Shalini, 'The humour and politics of being Adichie', Times of India, 25 January 2011. On Adichie's talk at the Jaipur Literature Festival.
  • Mehan, Uppinder, 'The Other Sci-Fi', American Book Review 32.2 (January-February 2011), p. 3. Partly discusses Adichie's take on science-fiction.
  • Ogunlesi, Tolu, 'Land Of The Rising Sun', Wings, 1 September 2012. About the film version of Half of a Yellow Sun.
  • Sciuto, Jenna, '"Your visit has filled me like food": An Evening with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', Northeastern University: English Department Alumni e-Newsletter (Spring 2012), p. 10.
  • Krupa, Lakshmi, 'After Achebe', Hindu, 6 April 2013.
  • Abodunrin, Akintayo, 'President Jonathan not a bad man but ... - Chimamanda', Nigerian Tribune, 12 May 2013.
  • Udoh, Uche, 'Writers brainstorm on Chimamanda Adichie's Americanah', Vanguard, 8 August 2013.
  • 'The 10 Best Books of 2013', New York Times (Sunday Book Review), 15 December 2013, p. BR12. [online version: 4 December 2013]
  • Meyer, Robinson, 'When Beyoncé Samples Your TED Talk, This Is What Happens to Your Book', Atlantic, 23 December 2013.
  • Filani, Omotola, "'Don't address me as Mrs but Miss" - Married Chimamanda Adichie warns journalist', Daily Post, 3 March 2014.
  • 'Half of a Yellow Sun Film Gets Kudos From Movie Goers', Vanguard, 9 April 2014.
  • Onuzo, Chibundu, 'Nigeria's history problem needs the light from Half of a Yellow Sun, Guardian, 16 April 2014, p. 32. [online version: 15 April 2014]
  • Nossiter, Adam, 'Nigerian Movie Appears to Hit Nerve Over War', New York Times, 26 April 2014, p. A4. [online version: 25 April 2014]
  • Adekunle, Mu'Sodiq, 'Chibok: Chimamanda Adichie Expresses Worry Over Foreign Intervention', Daily Times, 2 June 2014.
  • Muomah, Onyinye, 'Half of a Yellow Sun May Ignite Violence in Nigeria - Censor's Board Chairperson', Premium Times, 5 June 2014.
  • Ofili, Chike, 'Adapting Half of a Yellow Sun film against Igbo misfortune', Sun, 8 June 2014.
  • Lee, Felicia R.'New Wave of African Writers With an Internationalist Bent', New York Times, 30 June 2014, p. A1. [online version: 29 June 2014]
  • Ezeonyejiaku, Kenechukwu, 'How Creative Writing Workshop Lift Writers', Guardian (Nigeria), 29 August 2014.
  • Abulude, Samuel, 'HOAS [sic]: I Haven't Made The Money Yet - Chimamanda Adichie', Leadership, 6 September 2014.
  • Hartley, Jeremy, 'Americanah author stresses need for discussion on topics of race, gender', Centre Daily Times, 14 October 2014.
  • Atkinson, Nathalie, 'Literary flair: Get the looks of these five fashionable authors', Globe and Mail, 7 November 2014.
  • Abanobi, Chika, 'Face of a book resident', Daily Sun, 16 December 2014. About the real-life Mama Joe, who appears as a character in Purple Hibiscus.
  • 'Corrections and clarifications', Guardian, 11 February 2015. The Guardian apologizes to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for publishing her article on depression without persmission.
  • Jones, Radikha, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Conjurer of character', Time, 16 April 2015. Short text about the writer following her inclusion among Time' '100 Most Influential People'.
  • Lee, Nicole, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: "Fear of causing offence becomes a fetish"', Guardian, 11 May 2015.
  • Asomba, Ikenna, 'Adichie, Wainaina Worry Over Dearth of Literary Works in African Languages', Vanguard, 30 June 2015.
  • Horton, Helena, 'Every Swedish 16-year-old is getting a copy of Chimamanda Adichie's feminist book', Telegraph, 3 December 2015.
  • Younge, Kate, 'Food in Books: Jollof Rice from Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', Guardian, 3 March 2016.
  • Edoro, Ainehe, 'How not to talk about African fiction', Guardian, 6 April 2016.
  • Garber, Megan, 'The Trump Campaign Just Became Literature', Atlantic, 28 June 2016. On the short story 'The Arrangements'.
  • Okobi, Sunday, 'Chimamanda, Airtel Task Nigerian Pupils On Reading, Leadership', This Day, 29 June 2016. Also published as authored by Atueyi, Ujunwa, 'Novelist, Adichie, Urges Pupils to Develop Interest in Reading', Guardian (Nigeria), 21 July 2016.
  • 'Donald Trump skewered by Adichie in a Virginia Woolf spoof', Evening Standard, 30 June 2016. On the short story 'The Arrangements'.
  • 'Kukah, Nwosu, Chimamanda call for Obi's model in education', Vanguard, 14 July 2016.
  • Atueyi, Ujunwa, 'Novelist, Adichie, Urges Pupils to Develop Interest in Reading', Guardian (Nigeria), 21 July 2016.
  • Lasisi, Akeem, 'I find "baby bump" irritating - Chimamanda', Punch, 12 August 2016.
  • Folarin, Tope, 'Against Accessibility: On Robert Irwin, Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Imbolo Mbue's Behold the Dreamers', LA Review of Books, 8 September 2016.
  • Hua, Karen, 'The Cultural Importance of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Boots Beauty Campaign', Forbes, 21 October 2016.
  • Cain, Sian, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie slams BBC "ambush" with Trump supporter', Guardian, 28 November 2016.
  • Merelli, Annalisa, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie explains why "pop feminism" is good for women', Quartz, 8 March 2017.
  • Michelson, Noah, 'Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Under Fire For Comments About Trans Women', Huffington Post, 11 March 2017.
  • Kean, Danuta, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie clarifies transgender comments as backlash grows', Guardian, 13 March 2017.
  • Waring, Olivia, '"A trans woman is a trans woman": Feminist writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie responds to transphobia accusations', Metro, 13 March 2017.
  • O'Connor, Roisin, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie clarifies views on transgender women after backlash over Channel 4 interview', Independent, 14 March 2017.
  • Smith, David, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on transgender row: "I have nothing to apologise for"', Guardian, 21 March 2017.
  • 'That Certain Look', Vanity Fair, March 2017, p. 174-183 (Adichie pictured on p. 176). Published online as Smith, Krista, 'From Jaden Smith to Kirsten Dunst: The Style Stars Set to Rule 2017', Vanity Fair, March 2017.
  • Craven, Shona, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie captivates at book festival alongside Nicola Sturgeon', National, 28 August 2017.
  • Robinson, David, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie makes waves at the Edinburgh Book Festival', Scotsman, 28 August 2017.
  • Cain, Rachel, 'Award-winning Author Speaks at Gaithersburg High School', Sentinel, 5 October 2017.
  • Borha, Imade, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi [sic] talks on her One Maryland One Book novel', Frederick News-Post, 7 October 2017.
  • 'Being a Feminist in Africa Is Rare: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie', Times of India, 29 January 2018.
  • 'Outrage After French Journalist Asks Chimamanda Adichie if There're Bookshops in Nigeria', Punch, 30 January 2018.
  • 'Chimamanda Adichie Tackles Hillary Clinton over Twitter Bio', Punch, 23 April 2018.
  • Pazzanese, Christina, 'Adichie: "Protect and value the truth"', The Harvard Gazette, 23 May 2018. About Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Class Day speech at Harvard University.
  • Thu-Hong, Ha, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie urges Harvard grads to develop a "fantastic bullshit detector"', Quartz, 23 May 2018.
  • Halper, Jamie D., 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Makes the Case for Truth in College Class Day Speech', Harvard Crimson, 24 May 2018.
  • 'Whispering in the ear of a crowd', Chatham House: The World Today 74.4 (August-September 2018), p. 7. Discusses Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's speech on cultural attitudes towards domestic work.
  • Albanese, Andrew, 'Crossing Borders', Publishers Weekly 265.39, 24 September 2018, p. 26. Discusses the keynote address to be given by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie at the opening press conference at the Frankfurt Book Fair (2018).
  • Albanese, Andrew, 'Frankfurt Book Fair 2018: Chimamanda Adichie Says It's Time for "New Storytellers"', Publishers Weekly, 9 October 2018.
  • Sands, Philippe, 'The Diary: A death in Istanbul, tears in Leeds, and a New York hymn to human rights', New Statesman, 19 October 2018, p. 21. Briefly discusses Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Pinter Prize lecture.
  • Bhutto, Fatima, 'When Chimamanda met Hillary: a tale of how liberals cosy up to power', Guardian, 27 November 2018.
  • 'China Fan Base for Chimamande [sic] Adichie', New African 591 (February 2019), p. 6. Reports on the translation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's works into Mandarin.
  • Mahtani, Noor, '"Negarse a incluir a la mitad de la sociedad es simplemente estúpido"', El País, 4 November 2019. About an event held at 'la Casa del Lector de Matadero' in Madrid.
  • 'The 10 Best Fiction Books of the 2010s', Time, 12 November 2019. Briefly discusses Americanah.
  • '20 Women Who Will Shape Events in Nigeria in 2020', ThisDay, 3 January 2020.
  • Marcos, Ana, 'Escritores "influencers": los veteranos conquistan las redes sociales', Babelia (El País), 13 February 2020. In Spanish. Briefly discusses Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Instagram account.
  • Uzoatu, Uzor Maxim, 'How Not to Steal From the Chimamanda Brand', PM News (Nigeria), 18 March 2020.
  • 'Chimamanda addresses University of Pennsylvania's graduating class of 2020', Vanguard, 20 May 2020.
  • Mateo, Romo, 'Chimamanda Ngozi, una Scheherazade africana', review of Adichie's El peligro de la historia única (the Spanish version of The Danger of a Single Story), Cultura Latinoamericana 33.1 (2021), pp. 277-282.
  • Malik, Kenan, 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Captures the Hypocrisies of Too Many "Social Justice" Zealots', Observer, 20 June 2021.
  • Ude, Donald, 'Church, Chimamanda and funerals: Matters arising', Vanguard, 19 April 2022.
  • Egbejule, Emoro, 'The Chimamanda effect: Nigerians' delight at first novel in a decade from their beloved daughter', Guardian, 4 March 2025.

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