Chimamanda Adichie loses mother eight months after father’s demise

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Nigerian novelist writer, Chimamanda Adichie, has lost her mother, Mrs. Grace Ifeoma Adichie, barely a year after the death of the father.

Mrs Grace died aged 78.

She passed on Monday, March 1st, 2021 in Awka, Anambra State.

According to a close family source, Mrs Grace Ifeoma Adichie (nee Odigwe) had no illness symptoms before she suddenly passed on.

She was married to Sir James Nwoye Adichie for close to 60 years.

A family spokesperson described the sudden turn out of event as a ruinous one for the family, saying that “it was very sudden and we are devastated.”

The father of Chimamanda and husband to Mrs Grace, James Adichie, was an emeritus professor of Statistics and Mathematics, University of Nigeria Nsukka.

He died June 10, 2020 in Anambra after battling a brief illness, aged 88.

Mrs Grace is survived by her six children: Ijeoma, Uchenna, Chuks, Okechukwu, Chimamanda and Kenechukwu; as well as nine grandchildren, in-laws and many relatives.

The deceased was the first female registrar of the same University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN).

The funeral arrangements is yet to ascertained.

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