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Ngozi
Ngozi Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie — Nigeria's most celebrated contemporary novelist — has made this middle name globally recognised, associating it with a razor-sharp literary intelligence and a commitment to feminist cultural analysis. Characters named Ngozi carry the expectation of perceptiveness and articulacy, women whose way of describing the world permanently changes how others see it.
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“See entry 79. Listed additionally to ensure coverage of this critically important Igbo feminine name.”
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