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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Story of My First Love | Vogue

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Ahead of the publication of her new novel, Dream Count, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie tells the story of her first love.

Save this story Save this story My father was a professor, and we lived on the University of Nigeria campus in a house full of books; bougainvillea plants lined our driveway in splashes of purple. This was the small, gated world of my childhood: I went to the university primary school, the university children’s library, the university chapel for Sunday Mass. Everyone was similar—safe and sedate academic people—our lives circumscribed by the tended campus hedges. In my teenage years, I walked two streets to the university secondary school, whose reputation attracted people from out of town, esp

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