Award-winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has advised young women to choose their life partners wisely, stating that the person you marry can significantly impact your life.

In a recent event, she urges women to prioritise kindness and support in a partner, sharing her own positive experience of choosing a good partner.

Adichie cautioned against settling for someone who may not be a good person simply out of desperation to get married, encouraging young women to be intentional in their decision-making.

The writer said in part: “It’s really important who you choose, young women choose wisely. Sometimes you can tell that the person who you are with is not really a good person, but you are desperate to get married.

“The person who you choose as your life partner will make a huge difference in your life. Choose somebody who is kind, who is supportive, it will make all the difference. I can tell you that I chose well….”