By Gabriel Atumeyi
Grace Ifeoma Adichie, mother to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigerian novelist has passed on at the age of 78.
365Daily gathered that the aged mother breathed her last on Monday, March 1, 2021, in Awka, Anambra state.
However, the family is yet to disclose the cause of her death.
Ifeoma’s demise came about eight months after the author had lost her father, James Adichie, who died after a brief illness.
The ace novelist had last year narrated how her father’s death left her unsettled.
“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,” she had written.
“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.
The deceased couple are survived by six children: Ijeoma, Uchenna, Chuks, Okechukwu, Chimamanda and Kenechukwu; as well as nine grandchildren.