Archive > 07 June 2007

Adichie wins Orange Prize!

29 Year Old Nigerian Ngozi Chimamanda Adichie wins the Orange Prize for Literature. Up against this year’s Man Booker prize winner, Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss, and a US bestseller, Anne Tyler’s Digging to America, her epic on the Biafran War ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ won her the prize. Her first novel, Purple [...]

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My Teachers!

Speaking with my brother-in-law yesterday about Secondary school and especially the teachers one encountered there reminded me that instead of just talking, I should say Thank you. Well, a thank you via my blog is one I doubt will reach them but I guess it’ll encourage everyone who had a teacher or teachers who made [...]

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