Essays on The Thing Around Your Neck

“After you won the American visa lottery, your uncles and aunts and cousins told you, in a month you will have a big car. Soon, a big house. But don’t buy a gun like those Americans”. Imagine you get your visa done, set up, and...

In The Thing Around Your Neck (2009), Nigerian the author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie presents twelve short stories to the readers. , Eeach of them is dealsing with the Nigerian characters and their struggle in their daily lives. This struggle brings along their alienation from society...

“Jumping Monkey Hill” from “The Thing Around Your Neck” is a short story published in 2009, written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The story revolves around the ideas of how Africans are perceived by Europeans. Adichie narrates the anecdotal encounters of African scholars at a writer’s...

This essay focuses on the stereotypes and microaggressions that Africans experience. It explores the complex interactions between privileged and oppressed social groups, specifically the interactions between Edward, the workshop organizer and the African women attending the workshop. This essay claims that Edward and his wife...