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"The Headstrong Historian" is a short story by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. It was first published in The New Yorker on 16 June 2008, and later as one of the twelve stories in The Thing Around Your Neck in 2009. It won the O. Henry Prize in 2010. The short story portrays a woman named Nwamgba as the protagonist. She seeks justice against her late husband's family and cousin over the m
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"the Igala and Edo traders, [and] the white-skinned men”"
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"primitive culture instead of a worthwhile topic like African Alliances in the American-Soviet Tensions”"
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"silently carve[s] designs on her pottery uncertain of how to handle a woman crying about things that did not deserve tears”"
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