HALF OF A YELLOW SUN IS A LITERARY FORGERY A claim for copyright infringement has been made by Anne Giwa-Amu against Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Harper Collins Publishers in relation to the literary work, Half of A Yellow Sun. Anne Giwa-Amu, a law graduate from the London School of Economics and Political Science, is demanding damages and an account of profit as a consequence of the infringement of her copyright in the literary work SADE. In legal papers submitted to the Court, Ms Giwa-Amu alleged: “As a substantial amount of original material found in SADE, an earlier copyright work also appears in Half of A Yellow Sun a later work...Ms Adichie could not have included this by coincidence”. Ms Giwa-Amu alleged that in 1998 she sent a copy of her manuscript to Heinemann Educational Books Ltd, Nigeria. “Chinua Achebe, a writer linked to the Biafra propaganda effort, was the main decision maker on the Board of Directors at Heinemann”. Ms Giwa-Amu was informed that Chinua Achebe read and accepted SADE for publication for senior secondary school in Nigeria under the sub-title ‘SADE United We Stand’. Chinua Achebe later endorsed and promoted Half of A yellow Sun and one of his poems appears on the first page which would have entitled him to royalties from the sale of the book. Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Adichie share the same literary agent, The Wylie Agency. During an interview with the Premium Times, Ms Adichie claimed that after the publication of her first novel, Purple Hibiscus, Chinua Achebe tried to arrange a meeting with her. Ms Adichie claims that after this communication with Chinua Achebe she wrote Half of A Yellow Sun. Although Ms Adichie was not born until 1977 and did not experience the civil war, she claims to have written the novel after reading thirty-one books about the war. In the legal papers, Ms Giwa-Amu alleged that Ms Adichie rewrote her novel SADE by copying the setting, structure, plot, language, themes, characterization, incidents, content, form, subject matter, supporting arguments and scenes. Ms Giwa-Amu has claimed that every incident from her literary work, SADE, has beeen reword and expanded upon to create a literary forgery
R R lol...so why post this here. If Anne has a problem with the book, she should simply go to the court of law for redress. Until she is proven guilty, you don't have the right to defame her on any space.
If Any was good enough ,then we all could have read her book. So stop trying to give your sister or your spouse a minute of fame by linking her to this successful lady.
Shame on you for sharing fake information around. U can't be able to bring chimamanda down. Cos God is already on her side. I will advise you to look for other job to do than sharing fake news around chimamanda speech.
Maybe the teacher just did not like you Chimamanda. Not many people like cheats.
The Bitter Obsession is real. You and whoever you're in Cahoots with CANNOT take credit for the amazing work of the Great Chimamanda.
HALF OF A
YELLOW SUN IS A LITERARY FORGERY
A claim for copyright infringement has been made by Anne Giwa-Amu
against Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Harper Collins Publishers in relation to
the literary work, Half of A Yellow Sun.
Anne Giwa-Amu, a law graduate from the London School of Economics and
Political Science, is demanding damages and an account of profit as a
consequence of the infringement of her copyright in the literary work SADE.
In legal papers submitted to the Court, Ms Giwa-Amu alleged: “As a substantial
amount of original material found in SADE, an earlier copyright work also
appears in Half of A Yellow Sun a later work...Ms Adichie could not have
included this by coincidence”. Ms
Giwa-Amu alleged that in 1998 she sent a copy of her manuscript to Heinemann
Educational Books Ltd, Nigeria. “Chinua
Achebe, a writer linked to the Biafra propaganda effort, was the main decision
maker on the Board of Directors at Heinemann”.
Ms Giwa-Amu was informed that Chinua Achebe read and accepted SADE for
publication for senior secondary school in Nigeria under the sub-title ‘SADE
United We Stand’. Chinua Achebe later
endorsed and promoted Half of A yellow Sun and one of his poems appears on the
first page which would have entitled him to royalties from the sale of the
book. Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda
Adichie share the same literary agent, The Wylie Agency.
During an interview with the Premium Times, Ms Adichie claimed that
after the publication of her first novel, Purple Hibiscus, Chinua Achebe tried
to arrange a meeting with her. Ms
Adichie claims that after this communication with Chinua Achebe she wrote Half
of A Yellow Sun. Although Ms Adichie was
not born until 1977 and did not experience the civil war, she claims to have
written the novel after reading thirty-one books about the war.
In the legal papers, Ms Giwa-Amu alleged that Ms Adichie rewrote her
novel SADE by copying the setting, structure, plot, language, themes,
characterization, incidents, content, form, subject matter, supporting arguments
and scenes. Ms Giwa-Amu has claimed that
every incident from her literary work, SADE, has beeen reword and expanded upon
to create a literary forgery
R R lol...so why post this here. If Anne has a problem with the book, she should simply go to the court of law for redress. Until she is proven guilty, you don't have the right to defame her on any space.
If Any was good enough ,then we all could have read her book. So stop trying to give your sister or your spouse a minute of fame by linking her to this successful lady.
R R You are everywhere. DISGUSTING! So obsessed over someone else's work.
Long ass comment
Shame on you for sharing fake information around. U can't be able to bring chimamanda down. Cos God is already on her side. I will advise you to look for other job to do than sharing fake news around chimamanda speech.