![]() She was the first female Registrar of the university and her dedication to her work inspired me, as did her refusal to be seen as any less competent than a male Registrar." My mother is more outgoing, sociable, vivacious. "ut I am even prouder of his gentleness and integrity. "I am immensely proud of intellect," she tells Per Contra writer Miriam N. With six children total, the family lived in the house formerly occupied by the world-renowned, Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe. Grace Ifeoma Adichie, Adichie's mother, was the first female Registrar at the university. I imagined I was going to a snow-filled place - to me overseas meant snow - and I was initially disappointed how similar San Diego was to my home town."Īdichie was born on September 15, 1977, in Enugu, Nigeria, to Igbo parents and grew up in Nsukka, the college town where her father, James Nwoye Adichie, taught statistics and later became Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Nigeria. ![]() ![]() "My father was a professor teaching in California, so we spent the summer with him. "I went to the US when I was eight," Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie tells Carl Wilkinson, of The Guardian. ![]()
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