Nigerian Author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has release a statement regarding the plagiarism claims raised by Anne Giwa-Amu, a mixed Nigerian and Welsh writer. She said they are completely false.
A statement in response to the allegations was posted on Facebook, Monday through the author’s literary agency, Wylie Agency.
Chimamanda Adichie and her publisher have said ” they have never heard of Giwa-Amu’s novel until she brought her delusional claim.” Her present allegations are false, and constitute harassment to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,”
The agency said a court had struck out the plagiarism claims when Giwa-Amu approached it 2019.
Wylie added that the court described Giwa-Amu’s case as “an abuse of the court’s process.”
However, Giwa-Amu who authored a book entitled Sade in 1996 had earlier claimed that Chimamanda “stole” novel for the critically acclaimed Half of a Yellow Sun; produced in 2007.
Although, Anne Giwa-Amu stated she discovered the supposed plagiarism in 2013. She claimed she saw a poster in London, advertising the Biyi Bankole film adaptation of Adichie’s novel Half of a Yellow Sun.
The development had ended in a lawsuit as well as heated debates among both readers and fans of Adichie across social media.\
And on Sunday, the aggrieved author took to her Youtube page to narrate how the Nigerian novelist plagiarized her work; prompting a rebuttal from Adichie.