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Chimamanda Adichie, a popular Nigerian novelist, has broken her silence on the demise of James Adichie, her father, who recently passed away from a brief illness.
On June 10, the professor of statistics had breathed his last at the Chira Memorial Hospital situated within Awkuzu Oyi local government where he was admitted to.
The award winning author had remained quiet about the sad news as close relatives engaged the media
But on Saturday, she took to her Facebook page to pen an emotional tribute where she conveyed her sadness.
Noting she had feared such possibility due to his age, Chimamanda described the experience of planning his funeral while being stuck in the United States due to the pandemic as “bewildering.”
“And just like that my life has changed forever. June 7, there was Daddy on our weekly family zoom call, talking and laughing. June 8, he felt unwell,” the author wrote.
“Still, when we spoke he was more concerned about my concussion. June 9, we spoke briefly, my brother Okey with him. “Ka chi fo,” he said. His last words to me. June 10, he was gone.
“Because I loved my father so much, so fiercely, so tenderly, I always at the back of my mind feared this day. But he was in good health. I thought we had time.
“I thought it wasn’t yet time. I have come undone. I have screamed, shouted, rolled on the floor, pounding things. I have shut down parts of myself.
“We are broken, bereft, holding on to one another, planning a burial in these COVID-scarred times. I’m stuck in the US, waiting. The Nigerian airports are closed. Everything is confusing, bewildering.
“Sleep is the only respite. On waking, the enormity, the finality, strikes – I will never see my father again. Never again. I crash and go under. The urge to run and run, to hide from this”, she said.