Christina Patterson talks with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie who “has attracted widespread acclaim for her fiction about her native Nigeria.”
“It was only when she started reading African writers - Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Camara Laye's The African Child - that she realised that black Africans ‘could actually exist’ in books. ‘It changed everything,’ she says. ‘As a child you're not brave enough to change things - until something makes you realise that you can actually write your own story.’" – from “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie : Fortunes of War and Peace,” by Christina Patterson, The Independent