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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Welcomes Twin Boys

byChibuzor Isichei
February 17, 2025
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Renowned Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has revealed that she gave birth to twin boys in 2024. The acclaimed writer, known for her bestsellers Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah, chose to keep the birth private to safeguard her family’s privacy.

In a recent interview with The Guardian’s Charlotte Edwardes, the 47-year-old author discussed the overwhelming public interest in her life, her personal losses, and the challenges of balancing motherhood with her writing career. Adichie, who has often kept her personal life out of the public eye, explained her reasons for withholding details about her children’s birth.

“I want to protect my children,” Adichie shared. “I’m OK with them being mentioned, but I don’t want the focus to shift entirely onto them.”

The literary icon also spoke about her decision to keep certain aspects of her life private, including her marriage to Dr. Ivara Esege, a hospital physician whom she wed in 2009. Adichie has made a conscious effort to maintain this privacy, understanding the public’s intense curiosity about her personal affairs.

“People in Nigeria are very interested in your private life,” she noted. “Because of that, I am resistant. I rarely talk about it.”

Adichie, who described herself as being at a “grand old age” of 47, humorously admitted that she sometimes forgets how old she is. Alongside the challenges of motherhood, the author worked on her much-anticipated novel Dream Count, which was delayed longer than expected. The novel, set for release on March 3, 2025, follows four women as they navigate themes of migration, cultural identity, and the pressures of marriage and motherhood. It marks Adichie’s return to fiction after more than a decade.

Reflecting on the delay, Adichie confessed that motherhood had created a mental block that made it difficult for her to write fiction. “I didn’t want to leave such a long gap between novels. When I got pregnant with my daughter, something shifted. I went through years where I feared I might never write again. It was unbearable,” she explained.

While she continued to write nonfiction, Adichie found fiction, her true passion, elusive during this time. However, the breakthrough came when she worked on Notes on Grief, a memoir she wrote in 2021 after the death of her father in 2020. During the process of mourning, she felt a shift in her creative energy, helping her reconnect with the flow of writing she had missed.

Adichie also faced the profound loss of her mother in 2021, which initially left her struggling to find the words to express her grief. However, as she neared completion of Dream Count, she realized that the novel was, in many ways, a tribute to her late mother.

“Only when I was almost done did I realize—it’s about my mother,” she said. “It wasn’t intentional, and I’m glad it’s not a sad book. She wouldn’t have wanted a sad book dedicated to her.”

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