Know the Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie born on 15 September 1977) is a Nigerian novelist, writer of short stories, and nonfiction. She has written the novels Purple Hibiscus (2003), Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), and Americanah (2013), the short story collection The Thing Around Your Neck (2009), and the book-length essay We Should All Be Feminists (2014).
These talks by Chimamanda Adichie
∆. The Danger of Single Story
∆. We Should All be Feminist
∆. Importance of Truth in Post-truth Era
∆. The Danger of Single Story
In this video talks about our lives, our cultures are composed of many overlapping stories novel is Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding. The single-story creates stereotypes and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story. Of course, Africa is a continent full of catastrophe. There are immense ones, such as the horrific rapes in Congo and depressing ones. She also tells that the consequences of the single-story are this: It robs people of dignity. It makes our recognition of our equal humanity difficult. It emphasis how we are different rather than how we are similar. She ends with her talk on that when we reject the single story. When we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise.
∆. We Should All Be Feminist:
We Should All Be Feminists is a personal, eloquently-argued essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah. Here Adichie offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness. Drawing extensively on her own experiences and her deep understanding of the often-masked realities of sexual politics, here is one remarkable author's exploration of what it means to be a woman now and of-the-moment rallying cry for why we should all be feminists. We Should All Be Feminists is licensed for publication in 32 languages.
∆. Importance of Truth in Post-truth Era
In this video, Chimamanda Adichie observes that generally, people in the twenty-first century has a lot of things around them to get confused or rather to believe in it so easily that sometimes, it may happen that the information they carry maybe not pure or correct. We are repeatedly told these days that we have entered the terrifying new era of post-truth, in which not just particular facts but the entire truth might be facked.
To sum up the entire talks by Chimamanda Adichie I liked the views upon We Should All be Feminist. Adichie's version of feminism means acknowledging that women have and continue to have gotten the bad end of things, politically and socially, all over the world,” she says. “Feminism means not only acknowledging that but wanting to make it better.” Moreover, these talks are connected with Postcolonial and African literature. From a postcolonial perspective, the average Nigerian does not have the luxury of nursing what Adichie calls "a single story" about France. It is in their interest to know that France has bookstores.
One thing Black women artists have taught us is the importance of acknowledging our intellectual histories and those who dreamt the futures we enjoy, and our responsibility to dream more liveable futures for those behind us. When Adichie affirms in the interview "I think of myself as coming from a tradition," and names her literary precursors, she overlooks the feminist and postcolonial theorists who made her possible & they are part of her heritage.
Meantime, Adichie's novels Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun are forms of theorisation, if we understand stories to be involved in analytic work. To misquote Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, theories, like stories, lend us a second handle on reality. Adichie's Purple Hibiscus lends us an analytic handle on the familiar paradox of African nationalist icons who gave us so much, but took away so much more because their visions of freedom were one-dimensional.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie born on 15 September 1977) is a Nigerian novelist, writer of short stories, and nonfiction. She has written the novels Purple Hibiscus (2003), Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), and Americanah (2013), the short story collection The Thing Around Your Neck (2009), and the book-length essay We Should All Be Feminists (2014).
These talks by Chimamanda Adichie
∆. The Danger of Single Story
∆. We Should All be Feminist
∆. Importance of Truth in Post-truth Era
∆. The Danger of Single Story
In this video talks about our lives, our cultures are composed of many overlapping stories novel is Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding. The single-story creates stereotypes and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story. Of course, Africa is a continent full of catastrophe. There are immense ones, such as the horrific rapes in Congo and depressing ones. She also tells that the consequences of the single-story are this: It robs people of dignity. It makes our recognition of our equal humanity difficult. It emphasis how we are different rather than how we are similar. She ends with her talk on that when we reject the single story. When we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise.
∆. We Should All Be Feminist:
We Should All Be Feminists is a personal, eloquently-argued essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah. Here Adichie offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness. Drawing extensively on her own experiences and her deep understanding of the often-masked realities of sexual politics, here is one remarkable author's exploration of what it means to be a woman now and of-the-moment rallying cry for why we should all be feminists. We Should All Be Feminists is licensed for publication in 32 languages.
∆. Importance of Truth in Post-truth Era
In this video, Chimamanda Adichie observes that generally, people in the twenty-first century has a lot of things around them to get confused or rather to believe in it so easily that sometimes, it may happen that the information they carry maybe not pure or correct. We are repeatedly told these days that we have entered the terrifying new era of post-truth, in which not just particular facts but the entire truth might be facked.
To sum up the entire talks by Chimamanda Adichie I liked the views upon We Should All be Feminist. Adichie's version of feminism means acknowledging that women have and continue to have gotten the bad end of things, politically and socially, all over the world,” she says. “Feminism means not only acknowledging that but wanting to make it better.” Moreover, these talks are connected with Postcolonial and African literature. From a postcolonial perspective, the average Nigerian does not have the luxury of nursing what Adichie calls "a single story" about France. It is in their interest to know that France has bookstores.
One thing Black women artists have taught us is the importance of acknowledging our intellectual histories and those who dreamt the futures we enjoy, and our responsibility to dream more liveable futures for those behind us. When Adichie affirms in the interview "I think of myself as coming from a tradition," and names her literary precursors, she overlooks the feminist and postcolonial theorists who made her possible & they are part of her heritage.
Meantime, Adichie's novels Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun are forms of theorisation, if we understand stories to be involved in analytic work. To misquote Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, theories, like stories, lend us a second handle on reality. Adichie's Purple Hibiscus lends us an analytic handle on the familiar paradox of African nationalist icons who gave us so much, but took away so much more because their visions of freedom were one-dimensional.
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