“A Kind of Paradise”: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Claim to Agency, Responsibility and Writing

The article deals with the recent narrative by Chimamanda N.Adichie, reading her writing in parallel with postcolonial theories, politics and poetry. The article specifically focuses on the collection of short stories The thing around your neck; but also on "The danger of a single story", and "We should all be feminists". The sections "The organic intellectual" and "The organic writer" read Adichie's work with Edward Said, Gayatry C. Spivak, Achille Mbembe, Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, Hélène Cixous, Denise Ferreira da Silva.