Ugwu

Another key narrator, Ugwu, is a thirteen-year-old houseboy who seems to react rather than act.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - An interview with author 2010

Ugwu is only thirteen when he begins working as a houseboy for Odenigbo, but he is one of the most intelligent and observant characters in the novel.

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Questions 2006

Thirteen-year-old Ugwu is employed as a houseboy for a university professor full of revolutionary zeal.

Half of a Yellow Sun: Summary and book reviews of Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. 2006

Thirteen-year-old Ugwu is employed as a houseboy for Odenigbo, a pan-Africanist university professor full of revolutionary zeal.

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Questions 2006

Ugwu was inspired in part by Mellitus, who was my parents’ houseboy during the war; in part by Fide, who was our houseboy when I was growing up.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - An interview with author 2010

And I do think that Ugwu does come to act more and react less as we watch him come into his own.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - An interview with author 2010

For Ugwu, salvation had very little to do with the next world; it was all about this one.

God’s Country 2008

For Ugwu, salvation had very little to do with the next world; it was all about this one.

God’s Country 2008

Ugwu the house boy, Olanna the teacher and Richard the Englishman and a wealth of other characters as they struggle to cope with the new order.

50 entries from June 2007 2007

Ugwu the house boy, Olanna the teacher and Richard the Englishman and a wealth of other characters as they struggle to cope with the new order.

Orange Observations 2007