Address me as Chimamanda, Not Mrs Chimamanda Esega” – Chimamanda Adichie

Award winning novelist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, recently granted an interview to Abanobi Chika and Odogwu Obinna in Lagos. In the interview she insisted that she wanted to be addressed as ‘Miss’ and not ‘Mrs’. 

It will be recalled that Chimamanda got married to her medical doctor husband,  Ivara Esege, some few years back. This interview has left not a few people wondering if Chimamanda is separated or divorced from her husband. 

Here are the excerpts:

Before we start, please, I just want to say that my name is Chimamanda Adichie. That’s how I want it; that’s how I’m addressed, and it is not Mrs. but Miss.  Ms: that’s how I want it.