Listen as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie reads her short story “Olikoye”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was also one of more than 30 artists to contribute to a special artistic project on vaccination in Africa and around the world.

The short story titled Olikoye was originally published on Medium on last week after being originally published in the story collection “The Art of Saving a Life” commissioned by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to spotlight the value of vaccines.

From our BBC studios in Washington, she recorded this exclusive reading of her short story Olikoye to coincide with a major ministerial conference on immunisation in Africa which is taking place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.