Sunday Reding:- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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This blog is the part of my thinking activity in classroom. In this blog I would like to talk about the famous Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. And ponder some points and gave my rivew on that.

Let's throw some light on her Life.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie:-

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, (born September 15, 1977, Enugu, Nigeria), Nigerian author whose work drew extensively on the Biafran war in Nigeria during the late 1960s.

In 1998 Adichie’s play For Love of Biafra was published in Nigeria. She later dismissed it as “an awfully melodramatic play,” but it was among the earliest works in which she explored the war in the late 1960s between Nigeria and its secessionist Biafra republic. She later wrote several short stories about that conflict, which would become the subject of her highly successful novel Half of a Yellow Sun (2006). As a student at Eastern Connecticut State University, she began writing her first novel, Purple Hibiscus (2003). Set in Nigeria, it is the coming-of-age story of Kambili, a 15-year-old whose family is wealthy and well respected but who is terrorized by her fanatically religious father. Purple Hibiscus garnered the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in 2005 for Best First Book (Africa) and that year’s Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book (overall). It was also short-listed for the 2004 Orange Prize (later called the Orange Broadband Prize and now the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction).

Adichie’s nonfiction included We Should All Be Feminists (2014), an essay adapted from a speech she gave at a TEDx talk in 2012; parts of the speech were also featured in Beyoncé’s song “Flawless” (2013). Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions was published in 2017. Following the death of her father, Adichie wrote Notes on Grief (2021), in which she mourned his passing and celebrated his life.

1. Did the first talk help you in understanding of postcolonialism?

Yes, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's first talk helped use In understanding postmodernism. In her talk we can easily find the aspects of postcolonial criticism. Adichie's talk is about how Americans consider African people. In her talk we came to know about four critical aspects.

She talks about Cross-cultural interaction.

1)Identity 

2)Language

3)Hybridity and lots of things. 

In this video she talks about the power which narrates the story and condition also the mind of people. she says that single story will create a archetype and archetypes are dangerous because they are incomplete.

However, she says that when we reject a single story when we realized that there is not a single story but we regain a kind of paradise.

2. Are the arguments in the seconds talk convincing?

Yes the arguments in this video whatever she takes his concerning. In this video she talks about feminism. She mentioned one incident from one hotel. She walking alone in and one waiter consider her as sex worker. She felt angry. Then she talked about in Nigeria how women were treated. She talked a lot about how men were superior and women considered inferior.

Meanwhile, she differs one quote By Simone De Beauvoir '' one is not born rather becomes a woman''. she says that gender differential is worst things.

3. What did you like about the third talk?

The third talk I like the most is her satire on one lady who pronounced her name incorrectly. 

A few years ago, I spoke at an event in London. The English woman who was to introduce me had written my name phonetically on a piece of paper. And backstage she held on tightly to this paper while repeating the pronunciation over and over. I could tell, she was very eager to get it right.

And then she went on to the stage and gave a lovely introduction and ended with the words “Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Chimichanga.”

I told — I told this story at a dinner party shortly afterwards. And one of the guests seemed very annoyed that I was laughing about it. “That was so insulting”, he said, “that English woman could have tried harder.”

But the truth is she did try very hard. In fact, she ended up calling me a fried burrito because she had tried very hard and then ended up with an utterly human mistake that was the result of anxiety.

4. Are these talks bringing any significant change in your way of looking at literature and life ?

Yes,these talks bring changes in my way of looking at literature. its Change my view that I always believe that literature is always for reading and listening but after hearing this lady it's change my mind toward the literature. If we look around us than literature is everywhere.

Thank you...