BEVERLY HILLS, March 02, (THEWILL) – Barely eight months after her husband died, Grace Ifeoma Adichie, mother to Nigerian novelist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is dead.
The family confirmed the sad news on Tuesday morning.
According to available information, the 78-year-old died on Monday in Awka, Anambra state.
The circumstances surrounding her death have not been disclosed.
Her death is coming eight months after the writer had lost her father, James Adichie, who died after a brief illness.
The author had narrated how the death of her father had unsettled her.
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“Because I loved my father so much, so fiercely, so tenderly, I always at the back of my mind feared this day. But he was in good health. I thought we had time,” she had written.
“I thought it wasn’t yet time. I have come undone. I have screamed, shouted, rolled on the floor, pounding things. I have shut down parts of myself.
“We are broken, bereft, holding on to one another, planning a burial in these COVID-scarred times. I’m stuck in the US, waiting. The Nigerian airports are closed. Everything is confusing, bewildering.
“Sleep is the only respite. On waking, the enormity, the finality, strikes – I will never see my father again. Never again. I crash and go under. The urge to run and run, to hide from this.”
Ifeoma Adiche is survived by six children: Ijeoma, Uchenna, Chuks, Okechukwu, Chimamanda and Kenechukwu and nine grandchildren.
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