In a Hardtalk Extra programme broadcast on Friday 27th July, Gavin Esler talked to the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a new literary star.
She is a twenty-nine year old Nigerian writer, whose latest novel Half of a Yellow Sun won the Orange Prize for fiction this year.
She talks to Gavin Esler about defying the West's stereotypes about African life, and African literature.
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