Book Review | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Dream Count is a Sharp Take on Race, Class, and Womanhood

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s ‘Dream Count’

At a second-hand bookfair last month, I overheard a couple of bright young women talking about Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. They’d found Americanah on the international fiction table and were surprised to learn that Adichie was a novelist. To them, she was an empowerment celebrity: the TED-Talking, Beyoncé-sampled author of We Should All Be Feminists (2014). Growing up, the bookfair duo had been bombarded with copies (“My mum’s best friend gave it …

Book Review | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Dream Count is a Sharp Take on Race, Class, and Womanhood

In Dream Count, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie crafts a bold narrative on womanhood, privilege, and social struggles, weaving humour and tragedy into a powerful exploration of modern life.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Questions How Society Shapes Women's Aspirations

Renowned Nigerian writer and feminist icon Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has sparked an important conversation about the extent to which women’s dreams are truly their own or are influenced by societal expectations. Speaking in Paris at the launch of the French edition of her latest work, Adichie posed a thought-provoking question: "I’m interested in how much of a woman’s dream is really hers, and how much is what society has told her to dream about.…