sunday reading : Talks by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (click on )

 

               The Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi was born in 15th September.

Important Works

1.For love of Biafra

2.Half of a Yellow Sun

3.Purple Hibiscus

4.We Should All Be Feminists 

               She is also an excellent speaker. Listening her is an amazing experience. There are her three most popular talks.

1. The Danger of a single story

2. We should all be feminist

3. Talk on importance of truth in post truth Era.

                She is a story teller. At the age of 4 she started reading. She reads British and American children books. So she is a early reader. She begin to write at age of 7.

1.Talk on importance of story/ Literature

          Ngozi Adichie is very good speakers. In the first video she talk about her family, her childhood writing, her view about the literature and also she talked about the danger of reading single story about any place, country and people that you can not judge anyone without any kind of authentication. In this talk, she said that she read and write only about British story and white characters with Blue eyes. So, I have question that Her father and Mother had good job when she was young. So, why she did not read African literature or story by African writer, there were no any colony in her childhood, was her mind colonized ? or talked only to get sympathy from audience side who are white skin peoples ?

                                   


                                      

2. We should All be Feminist

               Second video about the feminism. A very interesting talk on feminism that how social norms discriminate woman from men. She gave many example of her life in which her primary incident about the class monitor was interesting. she talked generally same thought that feminist used to talk but i like most her thought that Culture not make people but people make culture, so we should change  our ideology that we internalized. As a man we should respect woman, there are many nature difference between men and woman in body organs but woman have equal ability same as men. We make happier world in which men and woman both are equal, we must raise our daughter and son in similar way. So, this talk about feminism is worth to listen.

        

3.Talk on importance of Truth in Post - Truth Era

           In the third video about truth in post-truth era, she beautifully said about the courage of speaking truth. He thought is to be loyal with ourselves to tell the truth. Post truth is very dangerous weapon in this 21st century, especially political parties make use of this kind of weapon to provocate riots and also media used for profit and to raise their TRP. So, she tries to say that do not driven as sheeple with the political language, try to understand the truth with authentication and always doubt in such a things.