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We Should All Be Feminists is a book-length essay by the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. First published in 2014 by Fourth Estate , it talks about the definition of feminism for the 21st century.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (/ ˌ tʃ ɪ m ə ˈ m ɑː n d ə ə ŋ ˈ ɡ oʊ z i ə ˈ d iː tʃ i. eɪ / ⓘ [a]; born 15 September 1977) is a Nigerian writer and activist.Regarded as a central figure in postcolonial feminist literature, she is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus (2003), Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) and Americanah (2013).
Days after The New York Times named Americanah to its best books of 2013 list, Beyoncé also signaled her admiration of Adichie, sampling Adichie's TED Talk "We should all be feminists" on the song "***Flawless"; sales of Americanah soared and as of December 23, 2013, the book climbed to the number 179 spot on Amazon.com's list of its 10,000 ...
To help you better understand these terms, we sat down for a little Feminism 101 with IRL feminists and GLAAD Campus Ambassadors about why the feminist and women’s rights movement is so ...
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, "We Should All Be Feminists" “Feminism isn’t about making women stronger. Women are already strong, it’s about changing the way the world perceives that ...
The Guardian's Mikki Kendall wrote, "In 'Flawless' (a track that leaked as 'Bow Down' over the summer), Beyonce quotes from author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's TedX talk 'We should all be feminists', adroitly addressing the idea that she is somehow anti-feminist for not fitting into the boxes others project onto her. It's clear that like a lot of ...
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The Danger of a Single Story" is one of Adichie's TED Talks. [ 12 ] Adichie says that "The Headstrong Historian" was written in an effort to "imagine the life of [her] great-grandmother" after first reading Things Fall Apart , which she saw as a representation of her "great-grandfather's life".