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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie rejects 'delusional' plagiarism claim

Written By Unknown on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 | 10:59 AM

Author’s agents say renewed accusations by Anne Giwa-Amu, that her 1996 debut novel was plagiarised, constitute ‘harassment’

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s literary agency has fiercely dimissed “delusional” claims that her award-winning novel Half of a Yellow Sun was plagiarised.

Nigerian-Welsh author Anne Giwa-Amu alleged in a YouTube video uploaded on Saturday that Half of a Yellow Sun plagiarises her own debut novel, Sade, which was published in 1996. In the video, Giwa-Amu describes Adichie’s book as “a rewrite of Sade” and says that “no one should profit from stealing another person’s work”. She uploaded a lengthy document to her website, laying out what she called “similarities” between the two novels.

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