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<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe Women’s Prize for Fiction ‘Winner of Winners’ is for her bestselling novel Half of a Yellow Sun<\/em>. The Winner of Winners prize was awarded to celebrate 25 years of the Women’s Prize for Fiction which was formerly known as the Orange Prize. The winner was chosen through a public vote that involved selecting the best book from the 25 winners in the prize’s history. The Women’s Prize for Fiction is a United Kingdom prize that recognizes the year’s best novel written by a woman in English. From her debut book Purple Hibiscus<\/em> that won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize to her 2013 novel Americanah<\/em> that won the National Book Critics Circle Award, Chimamanda continues to blaze the trail and put Nigeria in the most positives of lights. In a time of dark dictatorial rule that is masked in a pseudo-democratic government where corruption, extra-judicial killings by the police, abuse of the rule of law, and media suppression is the norm, she is a light that is becoming a lighthouse. Chimamanda was just 29 years when she won the Women\u2019s prize for her second novel in 2007. That year\u2019s contest pitched her work against Booker Prize winner Kiran Desai\u2019s The Inheritance of Loss and Anne Tyler\u2019s Digging to America. The chairman of the judging committee in 2007, Muriel Gray, remarked that Half of a Yellow Sun <\/em>is \u201castonishing, not just in the skillful subject matter, but in the brilliance of its accessibility\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kate Mosse, who founded the Women\u2019s Prize in 1995 after the judges of the 1991 Booker failed to include any woman author on their shortlist, said she was \u201cthrilled\u201d that Adichie had won an award that was intended to show that \u201cgreat books live beyond their time\u201d. She continued that Adichie\u2019s novel tackles colonialism, ethnic allegiances, class, race, and female empowerment. \u201cBut it\u2019s beautifully told because you\u2019re there rooting for characters, and in the end, that\u2019s what history is. It\u2019s about the real people who stood on that spot.\u201d This attribute of Chimamanda to speak up for women, men, Nigerians, African Americans, and other disadvantaged groups wherever she has found herself in her words and works, would most likely be the most important factor that will single her out for the Nobel Prize. This is more so because our giftings are not gifted to us for personal consumption only. Our talents are innately given to teleport us into a platform where we can use our voice to speak for the voiceless. And for causes that would ordinarily be ignored by the mainstream media. So, as we celebrate Chimamanda, know that you have a talent that is waiting to be discovered, developed, and deployed to help humanity. In her Wellesley College speech, she also said, \u201cI already knew that the world does not extend to women the many small courtesies that it extends to men. I also knew that victimhood is not a virtue.\u201d In Nigeria today, or wherever you are, it is easy to find an excuse for not becoming who you should be, that you are reading this means you can read and access the internet \u2013 one of the most uncelebrated twin assets. Use this asset to access the unlimited talent building contents on the internet and setup yourself for greatness like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ata Ukuta, Editor \u2013 www.towncryyers.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie spoke at the convocation of Wellesley College in 2015, She talked about her most passionate theme \u2013 femininity. She recounted the reason she started wearing make-up, \u201cI wasn\u2019t very interested in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1001],"class_list":["post-3536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/towncryyers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/KateMosseITV3CrimeThrillerAwardsArrivalscz0J6K_m0LRl.jpg?resize=372%2C594&ssl=1\")
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