An interesting read with a consistent perspective. My only encounter of the author before reading this book was through a Ted talk of hers, where she talked about "the danger of the single story". In a nutshell, she spoke of how Africa is misinterpreted as a singular unit by non-Africans due to t...
Quelques nouvelles portées par des personnages vibrant de vitalité et nous voici transportés au cœur de la société nigériane : sur fond de saveurs et de couleurs, de guerre, d'émigration, de corruption , d'amour et d'espoir, se lèvent de belles femmes ! Un beau livre servit par le style: la nouve...
These were beautiful stories. They are personal and poised; her writing is concise and carries a lot of weight. She effectively captures the struggles of those in the middle: for self-knowledge when people don't even want to know your real name, feeling the divide between yourself and your parent...
This is short selection of some of Chimamanda's TEDx talk from 2013.Those of us Beyonce fans will be happy to know that the line from 'Flawless' are included in this 52 page book.Knowing Feminism is a hard subject to talk about these days i respected her bravery in approaching it. My sister said ...
I received a digital ARC of this book from Netgalley.There isn't too much to say about this. The title says it all, really. We should all be feminists. Adichie does make a great point that more people should be making, that we make our culture, our culture doesn't make us. When we realize that as...
This is the powerful true story of the tragic civil war in Nigeria between 1967 and 1970, and the creation and defeat of Biafra. Nigeria itself is a fairly modern creation, like most African countries, its borders formed by its colonisers. And like Rwanda, differences between tribes were encourag...
brother and best friend, draft reader and story mailer—for sharing each early “no,” for making me laugh. Tokunbo Oremule, Chisom and Amaka Sony-Afoekelu, Chinedum Adichie, Kamsiyonna Adichie, Arinze Maduka, Ijeoma and Obinna Maduka, Uche and Sony Afoekelu, Chukwunwike and ...