Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is born on 15th September 1977. She is a Nigerian Novelist and writer of short stories and nonfiction.
● Her novels are :
Purple Hibiscus ( 2003), Half of a yellow sun ( 2006), Americanah ( 2013)
● Shorts stories :
The Thing around your neck
● Book-length essay :
We should all be feminist( 2014 )
She is a storyteller. At the age of 4, she started reading. She reads British and American children books. So she is an early reader. She begins to write at age of 7. She is also an excellent speaker. Listening to her is an amazing experience. There are her three most popular talks.
1) The Danger of a single story
The definition of Feminist is advocating social, political, legal, andeconomic rights for women equal to those of men.
In her speech she shares her Experience with Waiter in Hotel. Waiter greet only Man with her and ignore her every time. Waiter is product of society, who taught them that male are more important than female. She add that Gender matters everywhere in the world. On gender she further says that Gender is not an easy conversation to have. It makes people uncomfortable, sometimes even irritable. Both men and women are resistant to talk about gender, or are quick to dismiss the problems of gender. Because thinking of changing the status quo is always uncomfortable. How parenting differentiate gender: We say to girls: You can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful but not too successful, otherwise you will threaten the man. If you are the breadwinner in your relationship with a man, pretend that you are not, especially in public, otherwise you will emasculate him. Idea And Language of marriage is also discussed by her that, language of marriage is language of ownership rather than language of partnership. We used the world respect something which women should show to Men but, not Men shows to Women.Compromise in relationship, we grows the girl with competence of rather girl’s intention is for the attention of Men. We praised girl for virginity not boy! We teach girl shame, no desire, silence themselves. Apart from all we should focus on ability rather than gender. The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn’t have the weight of gender expectations After all, Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture.
2) We should all be feminist
“A Feminist is a man or woman, who says yes there is problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it and we must do better.”, this is the definition of Feminist by Chimamanda Adiche. A feminist is not only woman, we all should be feminist. In this video Chimamanda put the idea of fair world, Where everyone is human. She says that there is physical difference between man and woman but both are human. She believes that man doesn’t need to prove his masculinity by physical strength, and woman don’t need to pamper the ego of man. She says that we all are social beings and we internalize ideas from society. So we should make society equal. By telling her own life story she says that everyone should respect both man and woman. Parents should not raise their child differently and society should not treat both gender differently. Here I remember the quote by Simone De Beauvoir that, “One is not born, rather becomes a woman.” As per Chimamanda raising both gender differently is worst thing, there is difference but society exaggerate the difference which hurts and give privilege to one gender unnecessary. She believes that, “there is problem with gender because it shows how we should be rather than what we actually are.” She says that, “culture don’t make people, people make culture”, so don’t keep gender expectations, focus on ability and interest rather than gender, don’t be apologetic for being a woman.
3) Talk about the importance of truth in the post-truth Era.
Chimamanda spoke about the value of truth. She first begins with the interpretation of her name, "Chimamanda" which means personal spirit which can never be broken. Many find difficult to pronounce her name. Once she went to an event and there the anchor mispronounced her name as "Chimichanga". That women tried very hard but ended with an utterly human mistake. The point not about speaking an incorrect name, but the focus should be on a lie which normally people make, by changing the meaning of the concept. The lie in the word, idea, act all have some kind of political tendency. Chimamanda herself spoke about common lies which she used to speak, about her height, about to struck in traffic when someone asks her for being late. She has also shared her one experience when she has praised one writer whose name she doesn't know and when the wife of that writer ask her about which book she read, then she gave a bullshit answer because, in reality, she doesn't know about which book of which writer she is praising. She has spoken just a big lie at that time.
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