Birdsong (short story)

Last updated November 09, 2025

"Birdsong" is a 2010 short story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. It was first published in The New Yorker .

Sources

Opoku-Agyemang (2013). ""Rituals of Distrust": Illicit Affairs and Metaphors of Transport in Ama Ata Aidoo's "Two Sisters" and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "Birdsong"". Research in African Literatures. 44 (4): 69. doi:10.2979/reseafrilite.44.4.69.

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Bibliography
Novels	Purple Hibiscus (2003) Half of a Yellow Sun (2007) Americanah (2013) Dream Count (2025)
Short fiction	"The Headstrong Historian" (2008) "A Private Experience" (2008) The Thing Around Your Neck (2009) "Birdsong" (2010) "Apollo" (2015) "The Arrangements" (2016) "Zikora" (2020)
Children's books	Mama's Sleeping Scarf (2023)
Nonfiction	We Should All Be Feminists (2013) Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (2017) Notes on Grief (2021)
Adaptations	""Flawless" (Beyoncé song) Half of a Yellow Sun (2013)