In November 2024, The Royal Academy of Arts hosted a lecture sponsored by The Rothschild Foundation.

In this lecture, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie explored how she came to write and gives personal insight into her work and writing process.

Watch a clip from the lecture here:

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is an award-winning author whose work has been translated into over thirty languages. Her first novel, Purple Hibiscus (2003), won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and her second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), won the Orange Prize. Her 2013 novel Americanah won the US National Book Critics Circle Award. Her most recent work, Notes On Grief, an essay about losing her father, was published in 2021.

Her TED talk The Danger of A Single Story in 2009 and TEDx Euston talk We Should All Be Feminists in 2012 have been viewed by millions across the world. Adichie was named one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2015. In 2017, Fortune Magazine named her one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders.