03 Nov CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE: ‘AMERICA UNDER TRUMP FELT LIKE A PERSONAL LOSS

A few hours before Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and I are due to speak, the result of the US election is finally called. The Nigerian novelist, who is based in Maryland but is currently in Lagos, where she spends part of the year, had been on her way back from taking her daughter to a birth­day party when she heard the news. “The moment that we’ve been waiting for,” she says.