Is Chimamanda the new Achebe?
Nigerian author Chimamanda Adichie recently won 2007 Orange Prize for her novel Half of a Yellow Sun. This achievement set off comparisons between her and Chinua Achebe. Sunday Sun sought the opinion of some leading Nigerian writers from across the globe on this school of thought, with almost all correspondence seeing them "as two different people with different personalities and achievements that cannot be compared."
Chimamanda is herself and I cannot regard her as a new Achebe. She is a unique fresh voice in Nigeria's burgeoning literary tradition. But you could say, of course, that she is building on the structure left by masters like Achebe.
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