Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Literature, Power and the Academy
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- Internationally renowned writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the author of hugely influential novels, short stories, poems, and essays. Her innovative writing style subtly combines English with the Igbo language of Nigeria, where she was born. In this year of women's strikes and reflection on equal opportunities, she will address, in public conversation, questions about feminism and race, and the role literature can play in creating freer, fairer societies.
She gets these honors because she is diligent, consistent and brilliant. No one can take those distinctions away from her. Hands down!
I could hear her talk all day! So proud of her.
Same
Same
I agree.
I do so everyday. Since I'm free
Every time Chimamanda speaks, it's a whole vibe. 🌋😍
I love how she doesn't try to fake an accent, so eloquent and articulate, she beautiful and intelligent so simply
I swear!!
Exactly my thoughts! Just come and hear people that stayed in the United States for few years, you'll think they were born here.
I like her!
Yeah
Exactly!
When I see this much greatness on display I don't understand why Black men don't like Black women? This is the kind of greatness that we produce together.
The way the lady introducing her pronounced her name is simply, poetry!🥳💥
The feelings you get from watching, listening and reading from "your own" who is not just only exceptionally excellent in what she does, but very humble and natural in her dispositions. Proud of you and all that you represent!
I listened to Chinamanda’s Yale speech and now I am hooked. She’s motivating and inspirational. In addition, she is beautiful, poised, intelligent and her spirit, voice and thought processes reminds me of Maya Angelou. I’ve started searching for and listening to all her speeches. My plan is to read and/or listen to her books.
I assure you that it would be a very rewarding endeavour. I've read all her books.
Love her, I’m currently reading Americanah for the first time and loving every minute of it.
Igbo spiritualism on display, her parents did a good job to show her the real pillar of life, do all you should do ,keep your hands clean ,be yourself and keep searching for more good things then you remain flawless .She is an Eze Nwanyi ,her spirit vibrates in harmony with the universe.
When the academics here talk in jargon, Aduchie talks in the language of every human. She is vibrant, no pretense - a great writer.
Incarnation of elegance, wisdom and humanism. Thank you
Absolutely.. an amazing 💎... gem...
She’s a reminder that clarity and truth are essential ingredients for
Humanism...
We are drawn to her and her physical beauty and fashion style because we recognize in our souls the need for
Clarity and truth..💥💫
Truth begets power... and humanity!!
We’re regaining our humanity.. thank you Queen Chimamanda..🌹💎 for reminding .. teaching and prodding usi...that we not only have a place but are the place..🌟🔥
@@roxiet7016 true
A conscious decision to not mimic a North American accent has been important to me, because I truly believe my eloquence is part of speaking in the accent that is most familiar to me. Thank you.
I can listen to her because I love the calm and consistency in her speech. People have a tendency to talk so fast these days and one can hardly comprehend what they are saying. I have loved this discussion, it has be enriching in all angles.
Her voice is so soothing and nurturing 🌸
Her critique of American academia was BRILLIANT.
That passage speaks quite a lot. When I read that passage I said to myself, wow! This is the very first time I hear the most honest and real life in America for a non American.
Great that she has maintained her home accent and proud to do so. I had this expérience when I went to England from thé Caribbean to study. After 2yrs I returned home on holiday and noticed the différence in my way of speaking. I immediately reverted to my island accent and have never reverted back th the British accent. I think accents are beautiful and make the world a more interesting ' colorful' place. Be confident people, be proud of your original accent like Ms Adichie !
i should have read this when i first got to the us for school --everything she is saying is true 1000%
Tell me about itttttt-right?
I like that she has given a valid and right reason that the parents have. So, the young adult knows that it is not that the parents don't want you to be, they have just lived long enough to know that you must pay your bills, that you must survive.
I love her and her writing and for waking me up with the way she views the world because I view the world and human similarly.
So proud of her. Education is very important and empowering for the African Diaspora.
UNDENIABLY!!!!
Hair is political, clever girl, I listen her all day long.
I am definitely eager and willing to join the bible study and like Chimamanda have always believed that challenging the misuse of religion to believers requires deep understanding of the bible and challenging the interpretation that is often used to oppress and disenfranchise
Her keen psychological observance of human & cultural interaction is especially brilliantly displayed in Americanah( which i'm now in the mist of).
Chimamanda starts at 6:55
Thank you
Thanks
Thank you!
Thank you
Thank you!
Amazing and eloquent welcome and introduction. Then followed by the incredible author and activist herself. Thank you.
Chimamanda, a prolific writer that promotes Africaness in her work. She surely knows her onions.
She inspires me. Although, the only things I have in common with her (for now) is that I am Nigerian and I left medical school 🤦😭
Wow... I hope ur leaving the Medical sch is a good News like hers...
She is DEEP. There's so much in her and she can't exhaust her numerous selves.
am very proud of you chimamanda as an African.
She is so powerful & beautiful 👑💖I wish she was around when I was younger. Writing & reading was my passion. Now I work a depressing job with dumb bigots
You can change it
She's just so perfect 🥰
This is such an amazing conversation. Honest and candid!
An interesting interview. Keep it up Ngozi Adichie
Stanley you are interesting, but please shut up.
Brilliant 👏🏾👏🏾
this woman is so amazing,I just want to be like her
She is a blessing to my soul each time I listen to her overflow of wisdom that comes from her
Thank you, great talk as always Ms. Adichie!
She is a wonderful blessing of Biafra in diaspora , may God bless and add to her days .
Iseeee iseeee iseee
I love her♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Ms. Adichie, keep shining forever
Congratulations Mr Aboo, you were a good teacher.
Amazing African writer and woman
An interesting interview. Keep it up Ngozi Adichie
I loved her rant about the dangers of the inauthenticity trajectory of modern academia.
I love her♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
What a woman. No.. rather what a human!
But she is a woman
Nice one ,I love to see positive women building the society with their feminine ideology.
Thank you for teaching me so much !!
She speaks do well. She weaves her words like magic.
She finished them 💯 all the times always 💯💪🏽💪🏽
I was so engrossed, I had to finish the video before going home from work.
Whenever I listen to her, I’m proud of where I come from.
I Love her outfits. They are always Amazing and Unique.
she has achieved so much; her name is one every speaker from every race tries to pronounce correctly!...e dey choke lol
In Nigerian, there seems to be what I call reverse racism. Nigerians will first help a white person than a fellow black person in same situation. My opinion
It’s true, lingering trauma of colonisation
Gosh
I consider that as respect, i maybe wrong though.
Really?? I am not sure this is right.
I will say to you that , do not forget that in general , black people carry in their ancestral DNA the ability to welcome a person into their home has a sign of a fellow human, including their own people but because they was thought by the colonial to treat others than their own with kindness and love , they have become use to applying such rules that they forgot about treating each other with the same respect. Never forget that when you lack of knowledge about who you are , anyone can come arround you and fill in that empty space in your brain that waiting to be fed with information. Thank you, sisters and brothers around the world.
Such an insightful conversation with Chimamanda. I loved her problematizing of intersectionalism too.
A most exquisite one from Adichie.
I admire her dedication to the field of writing.
LOVE THIS WOMAN, THE MORE THEY EXPOSE HER
THE MORE BEAUTIFUL SHE GETS,, ONE LOVE,HAVE A GOOD DAY,,,.
Good advise. My parents don't have any idea of my wish to be a novelist😄😄
Thanks for the advice. I was too financially obsessed whenever I wanted to write.
Be giving me joy
A truly inspiring discourse, enjoyed every second of it
She’s amazing
That closing speech!❤️
When a writer gets God, religion and Christianity much more than many pastors. Wolves in sheep clothing they are. Material wealth and prosperity don't define God's goodness at all! God's grace and blessings are defined in Christ alone! The blessing is in the spirit, the blessing is spiritual. Nothing more. But greedy preachers tell you you have to 'convert' the spiritual wealth to physical. Please don't mind them!
God is good, God gives, but His blessing(s) are spiritual and spiritual alone.
God bless CNA!
1 Thess. 5:23 ?
Igbo dey everywhere!
Excited is over used by the Americans and Europeans alike
I read something I could verily understand.
Hi Brenda
@@sylviachimaehirim5342 hi
Knowledge is life
Start by showing them that Jesus was despised then because he did one thing. He interacted with women and children. A despised category then.
He kept constantly showing this society that women are humans. They should be revered and are men done.
He held women and men both in high regard as he saw them as human beings.
Eu preciso de legendas ou aprender inglês
Eu traduziria se não fossem uma hora e quarenta minutos hehehe mas se tiver algum pedaço específico que vc esteja querendo... :)
Speak English
@@isadore9793 shut up
@@danfiesta1 fuck you🖕
@@isadore9793 moron
:48min " kind of an intellectual" and "HONORARY" doctorate. rrrrrrr. she IS an intellectual and with all the work she has produced and done she HAS earned a doctorate. they did the same thing to Dr Maya Angelou
1:12:50 - 1:12:59- relates to why a woman's 'i guess so' is more certain than a man's 'yes, that's accurate'.
1:12:50-1:12:59
@@victorysampson I meant that boys are more confident and certain about what they think(even when they need to entertain a little doubt) whereas girls are more doubtful and confused (even when they need to be damn certain).
Deval Patel That depends on the type of person, not their gender. However, all I did was correct the time stamps.
@@victorysampson My time stamps are same as yours. However, you are right, i just mentioned an average(/the usual/typical). But nowadays, due to intellectual advances, average is becoming a 'not so good' predictor.
Deval Patel By correct, I mean make them clickable. You have to make time stamps with colons and not periods or else they don’t work.
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I think I understand her view on transgender women. I am advanced in age and not too clued up about gender alternatives but the undisputable fact is that transgenders started off as BOYS and were not subjected to the subtle innuendos that young girls are. We start earlier to socialise girls differently so if there is a voice for transforming let us not overload it with transgender women.
It starts on 7 minutes
"..people are more offended by being called a racist that the fact that racism exists."
Is she a member of DST?
40:23 🔥🔥🔥😭😭😭😭❤❤❤❤❤
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this abstract feels like my story right now. I have had to answer very stupid questions about Africa and I'm like, you have google! make research!
Biafra will be great
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Now. Let me be pradoxical how will the world accommodate academia based on your fact that it is like an imprisonment of the mind.
"..even the benefits that CLASS affords you in a capitalist society, race & gender deprive you of!"
Peer pressure makes young people not really say what they think.
Peer pressure makes young people not really say what they think.
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We have mighty enemies our goal is a United Africa Balkanized fiefdoms mismanaged and each going their own way …we will end up with modern day slavery where the powerful will be raiding the less …
@@asaasare220 Titch - means a small person - the Titch of the class ✋
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@@asaasare220 We already have the mighty enemy in West Africa by name, Fulani terrorists and jihadi regime alongside with their 5 known Fulani founded terror groupings from Boko Haram,Ansaru, herdsmen, bandits,Iswap and Izalla movement in the contraption called Nigeria aided by the Britain. Nigeria must be dissolved first in order to progress Africa.
@@biafraundefeated5884 and people like you desperately claiming to be jews are friends of nigeria and africa ? i doubt that... there are too many igbos outside of igboland .. dependent on the same nigerians and africans you despise.. I love igbos infact my first son's middle name is Chuku and I am from Ghana... what i do not take kindly is their sense of superiority especially over other africans.. mind you every superiority complex is balanced by an inferiority one.. notice the igbo penchant for titles like lady sir and whatever shitty neocolonial title there is... stop it already you'll have no support inside or outside.. but if victimhood makes you feel better continue...
Half of a yellow sun is biafra
She spoke the most, why is she the only one with the burden of carrying a hand mic??
Simply because she asked for a hand mic.
@@universitedeFribourgFreiburg Thanks for bringing that to my knowledge.
@@akannisamson5697 thank you for watching! Best regards.
Why doesn't she travel Africa??? She doesn't need to explain feminism to us in Europe.
Chimamanda I love u ooo but u over-use " I think".
1000 mile for you to get him
She uses it because she is giving an opinion which may or may not be correct. So it is left for you to ponder upon it and decide if you are to settle on it
And so?
Because she over thinks. As in she over uses her brains unlike you.
@@The_Dark_Poetess 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂