Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian author and public intellectual. Her novels include Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun (which won the Orange Prize for Fiction), and Americanah. Her TED Talk "The Danger of a Single Story" is one of the most-viewed TED Talks of all time, and she is widely regarded as one of the most important African writers of her generation.