She's an award-winning novelist, a TED talk sensation and Beyoncé's favourite feminist. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was 26 when she published her first novel, Purple Hibiscus, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. The books that followed, Half of a Yellow Sun - set during the Biafran conflict in Nigeria, a decade before she was born - and Americanah, a modern love story set between America and Nigeria, have also been garlanded with international prizes and critical praise. Salman Rushdie remembers meeting her at a PEN literary festival in New York, not long after Purple Hibiscus was published: "She did a one-on-one conversation with Michael Ondaatje in a packed auditorium at Hunter College. At that time she was just out of the egg, so to speak, and it was plain that she hugely admired Ondaatje, but what was so striking was her own confidence and authority. She very much held her own, and spoke fluently and powerfully, and all of us there that day could see that someone very remarkable had just arrived. A star is born, I remember thinking, and so it was." Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is in the April 2015 issue of Vogue, guys and here are new stunning photos from her shoot for the magazine. Her husband, Dr Ivara Esege, is an assistant professor of family medicine at the University of Maryland, in Baltimore. The photoshoot was done here in Lagos. See more photos below.........
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