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Live On Stage
Tuesday February 24 2026, 7pm GMT

An Evening with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Art &
Culture

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of her generation. Her bestselling novels include Americanah, the Orange Prize-winning Half of a Yellow Sun and Purple Hibiscus. She has collaborated with Beyoncé and has shared stages with Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama and Kamala Harris, discussing writing and women and power. She became known as a leading feminist thinker after her 2012 TED Talk We Should All Be Feminists went viral for its depiction of real, everyday experiences of gender bias. The talk resonated with millions and later became a bestselling book.

On Tuesday February 24 Adichie will join Intelligence Squared at London’s Barbican Hall to discuss her writing career and the themes of her latest novel, Dream Count. An interlocking story of four women, set in the US and Nigeria, it explores the immigrant experience, mother-daughter relationships, friendship and late motherhood. 

In what promises to be an unmissable conversation, Adichie will discuss her newest novel, and share her thoughts on feminism, race, migration and life in Donald Trump’s America. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to hear from one of the most influential literary voices of her generation.

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Speaker
  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    Award winning writer and novelist. Her latest book is Dream Count

Speakers are subject to change.


Location
  • Barbican Hall
  • Barbican Centre
  • Silk Street
  • London
  • EC2Y 8DS
Time
  • Tuesday 24 February 2026
  • 7pm to 8:30pm GMT





Speakers

Speaker

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Award winning writer and novelist. Her latest book is Dream Count


Nigerian writer. Her work has been translated into more than 55 languages and has appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and Financial Times. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; Half of a Yellow Sun, which was the recipient of the Women’s Prize for Fiction “Winner of Winners” award; Americanah, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck; the essays We Should All Be Feminists, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, and Notes on Grief; and Mama’s Sleeping Scarf, a book for children. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.

Speakers are subject to change.