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Jumping Monkey Hill

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

‘His accent was what the British called posh, the kind some rich Nigerians tried to mimic and ended up sounding unintentionally funny.’

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in 1977 in Nigeria. She is the author of two novels, Purple Hibiscus (2003) and Half of a Yellow Sun which won the 2007 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. A collection of short stories titled The Thing around Your Neck was recently published by Fourth Estate.

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