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Audio from Adichie's talk was included in Beyoncé's 2013 song "Flawless".Adichie was credited with a featured role on the track. [5] Adichie has largely remained silent about her feelings on Beyoncé's use of her speech, but in a 2016 interview in the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant, while acknowledging that with the song Beyoncé had reached many people who otherwise might never have heard the ...
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).
― 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 ...
Dear Ijeawele is composed of fifteen suggestions on how to raise a feminist daughter, [5] with references to Adichie and Ijeawele's shared Nigerian heritage and Igbo culture. [ 1 ] [ 9 ] Adichie was inspired to publicize the letter after becoming increasingly aware of what she recognized as ongoing gender inequality in her native Nigeria. [ 6 ]
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".
From Nicole Kidman’s erotic thriller “Babygirl,” to a book of sexual fantasies edited by Gillian Anderson, this was the year the female sex drive took the wheel in popular culture.
Kris Jenner is getting in the Christmas spirit with some sexy snaps.. On Dec. 24, the famous momager, 69, shared a series of throwback pictures revealing her chic holiday style throughout the ...
Americanah is a 2013 novel by the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, for which Adichie won the 2013 U.S. National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. [1] Americanah tells the story of a young Nigerian woman, Ifemelu, who immigrates to the United States to attend university. The novel traces Ifemelu's life in both countries, threaded ...