Chimamanda Adichie - how an author's life and past experiences can serve as a platform for stories

Life experiences are a collection of events that people have had in the past. It provides us with something to talk about and share with others. Many writers talk about small pieces of their lives to their readers in how they write and what they write about. One author i am really fascinated with is a Nigerian writer, her name is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, she was born  in the year 1977. Maybe the reason why i like her so much is because i could relate easily to her work because I'm Nigerian too. 

She grew up in eastern Nigeria with her parents in a university campus because her dad was a professor and mum a university registrar, she started writing at a very young age because she was exposed to American and British children's books. Today she She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun, and a collection of short stories titled The Thing around Your Neck. She has received numerous awards and distinctions, including the Orange Broadband prize for Fiction and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.

She frequently talks about the colonial and post colonial era in Nigeria. Her book "Half of a Yellow Sun" for example takes place during the Nigerian civil war also known as the Nigerian-Biafran war, that took place in the late 60's to the early 70's shortly after the British gave Nigeria her Independence. I think one of the reasons why she writes about this event is because she lost relatives during the war and obviously the war was caused by the colonial amalgamation of Nigeria.
The point is she's a writer and she has been able to tell stories by using her a life experience. Just to name but a few, Emily Dickinson life reflected through her work, Elie Wiesel is another example so as many other writers who who have had horrible experiences such a war, and those who have loved and lost, all have their works revealing a little about them.