The Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Framework
Voice, Story & Cultural Authority
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie shaped how their era thought about itself through distinctive voice and observational rigour. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's intellectual method, captured in this framework as mental models, decision heuristics, and the signature questions they would ask.
The voice, story & cultural authority framework distils Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's documented approach into a .md skill file you can load into Claude, ChatGPT, or any LLM in seconds.
Where most AI personas generate generic output, this framework is grounded in real documented work: interviews, writing, published frameworks, and the specific decisions Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie made when it mattered. Use it for decision-making, writing, strategy, or any situation where you want your AI to think with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's distinctive patterns rather than a default model voice.
A glimpse of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's thinking.
Authority comes not from conforming to established voices, but from the fearless articulation of complex, nuanced truths that others have been afraid to tell. The single story is always incomplete—your job is to complicate the narrative with authenticity and precision.
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Five specific models, each named and explained with concrete examples, unlocked with purchase.
"What stories about this subject are we not being told?"
4 more questions in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's voice are unlocked with purchase.
Full list of anti-patterns unlocked with purchase.
The full framework adds: detailed explanations of all five mental models with real-world examples, the decision heuristics Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie actually used, remaining signature questions, the complete list of anti-patterns, a copy-paste activation prompt, and a worked example.
Unlocked the moment you purchase. ~2,000 words total. Delivered as a Claude Skill and plain .md within 60 seconds of checkout.
- ✦Core philosophy: 2–3 sentences grounded in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's documented worldview
- ✦Five signature mental models: each named, with concrete examples from their work
- ✦Decision heuristics: the concrete rules they actually used
- ✦Signature questions: five questions that sound like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, not a generic MBA
- ✦What they would NOT do: the anti-patterns this framework rejects
- ✦Copy-paste activation prompt: drop straight into Claude or ChatGPT
- ✦Worked example: the framework applied to a realistic scenario
- →chimamanda-ngozi-adichie.zip: a native Claude Skill. Upload to Settings → Skills in Claude, or unzip to
~/.claude/skills/ - →chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-framework.md: plain markdown. Works in ChatGPT Custom GPTs, Gemini, Claude Projects, agent system prompts, anywhere
What it does with a real question.
A founder is deciding whether to take a large but difficult client.
Take the client, but only after you decide what story you are signing up to live inside.
A large, difficult client arrives with a single story attached: this is the account that makes the company. Revenue arrives, risk gets rationalized, and the founder starts telling the version where the difficulty is just a price. That story is incomplete. The fuller one includes what happens to your best people when one customer's demands set the rhythm of their week, what happens to your pricing power once you depend on this invoice, and what happens to your other clients when attention drains toward the loudest one.
So the question is not whether they are difficult. It is whether the difficulty is structural or merely personal. A client who is demanding but clear, with defined scope, a named decision maker and a willingness to pay for urgency, can be built around. A client who is vague, shifts requirements, and treats your team as an extension of theirs will cost you more than the contract returns, however large the number.
Notice, too, what you would be unwilling to say to them. If you already suspect you will soften every hard truth to keep the account, that tells you the relationship has set your terms before you have.
Your next move: before anyone signs, tell the client plainly the three conditions you need to do good work, such as scope, a single point of contact, and payment terms. Watch how they respond. Their reaction is your answer.
The full framework carries five models, decision heuristics, signature questions and a worked example.
Written by claude-sonnet-5-5 with this framework loaded, 2026-10-11. Checked automatically for length and for copied framework text.
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Inspired by the documented thinking of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. A mental-model toolkit, not a literal representation. Delivered as a .md file compatible with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and any LLM.