People should please step out of their negativity. Ms Ngozi Adichie is one of the best speakers out there. I admire her level of confidence and knowledge. The way she dresses and her hairdo define her true authentic self and she does not pretend to be what she is not. As a matter of fact, she should be someone to be emulated. Thank you Ms Ngozi for making us proud!!😊
Uma senhora autentica que fala so acerteza mas os donos da Terra nao gostam da verdade America e Democracia so nos livros So para perceber e so ver a contribuicao de Holocausto em Gaza autorizar um Regime Fascista genocida de Apartheid acabar uma geracao do jovens e criancas palestinas
lol it's actually not. people who ban books are mostly because these books try to indoctrinate children. or spread lies packaged as history. search youtube for the number of parents in public schools in the US and the kind of books they seek the school boards to ban. democrats/leftists are just disingenuous people.
I was taught about slavery in my school from the age of 7years even though I felt sad, it empowered me and made me know how my ancestors suffered in the hands of some white people who were engaged in the atrocities of slavery. The inhumanised treatments they suffered. Black history must be taught early in schools.
I am in my 50s and we, too, were taught about slavery from Kindergarten through 12th grade. Our teachers were predominantly black, and they always reminded us of what great things our ancestors achieved even in the midst of great suffering. It was a privilege to get an education because so many of our ancestors were not allowed to attend school. Lastly, my parents, who experienced Jim Crow laws taught and modeled forgiveness! What a powerful concept forgiveness is, eh?
This is my own experience in North America the gang members trying to hurt me they are from all race black Americans and white Americans ,Africans Nigeria I was born in Nigeria Asia they members in all countries for me it’s about Good and evil people in all countries
@@PepTalkTillYouDrop Who are you? I don't know you, so I am not referring to you (you should know that). I know alot of people that are proud of Chimamanda as I am.
People who are afraid of the truth are afraid of letting the truth known by others, especially the next generation who will stand up to challenge some truths that have been hidden for decades.
The ordinary is okay. This is one of the most profound statements I’ve heard in a while and yet it’s so simple ❤ a beautifully held conversation this was
Chimamanda is one of my favorite writers. I have ALL of her books in my personal at home library. A library I built up for more than 20 years. Banning of books is often done by those who do not read well; many are hypocrites, some wolves in sheep clothing. Reading isFUNDAMENTAL!!
I am a teacher with over 2 decades of experience, teaching and living on all the habitable continents of the world, and I am now uploading my experience unto my channel, with the aim of inspiring more people to embrace what I do. My goal is to hopefully stem this rising tide of hiding the truth, which is currently sweeping across the globe. As a Nigerian myself, Chimamanda has inspired me so much, and I know I have used her 'Danger of a Single Story' speech in all the classrooms I have entered, simply because a lot of people (by instinct) do not expect me to occupy the role I currently occupy on the international teaching stage. Children need to be exposed to crucial history and knowledge, albeit at a level appropriate for them. Wrapping them up in ignorance bliss just because someone somewhere thinks it will hurt their feeling is wrong - people who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.
People who do not read are the ones who want to ban books. People whonread know that no book should ever be banned. Ideas should always be expressed and discussed.
I love you Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Odeluigbo)Epitome of beauty and brains. Your seamless objective analysis with facts is fascinating. Keep it up sis. The host is equally amazing, fantastic job. Cheers to both of you.
It actually mean: my god will never failed me. Culturally within the lgbo race-tribe everyone has personal spiritual guidance known as Chim. My personal Devin God- guidance through life to eternity.
Wow! Book banning reminds me of apartheid South Africa. It is true Chimamanda, we were curious and making sure we were reading those banned books as quick as we could.
the sad future for the next generation is the loss of their creativities but it must and should not be like that their parents should encourage it as an African i started reading at 10years old because i lived with an uncle who read and at 73 i spend 3 hours or more a day reading feeding my mind which is so important people do not realise how far books could take a children they can become writers like Ngozi Qprah Winifrey is a billionaire because of her love of books early in her life which has shaped her to be where she is a child who loves books could become a poet, music writers etc articulate, confident so many thing he could do instead of looking for jobs please parents especially Africans encourage your children to read and write so they do not lose their creativities feed their minds
But rhat child could still develop well intellectually with the wide variety of books that are not banned. Books about sexual inclinations should be age specific.
It was the banning of Aristotle's Metaphysics that drew the curiosity of Aquinas to secretly read it and gave back the lessons of same to the very group that banned it giving the Theology that has shaped the Western Catholicism. Motus Immobilis of Aristotle becoming the Springboard for Aquinas' Living God.
It will enlighten them, broaden their perspective, help them understand about people who identify in a way that may be different to them. Banning books about LGBT does not eradicate the group from society nor does it mean that their stories don't exist because they're not available to be read on American bookshelves. Kids end up being dumbed down, unenlightened and unable to understand societal issues. Why ban books on one group, LGBT and not ban on another such as WASP or men? Why should a minority group's literature and narrative be banned? In a country that prides itself in upholding free speech? No justification in 2023, in 1823 maybe, not 2023. My two cents from Kenya.
As a person of color myself, I hate the fact that my skin color (something I'm born with) is being equated daily with some other person's personal CHOICE. This LGBTQ lie which started gaining wide popularity only in the last few decades is seriously disturbing and yes, I would personally ban such ideologies too.
@@edwardkannyo4041 I think she meant to say, lifestyle instead of ideology, if you can't force certain people to change their lifestyle, why don't you try to understand them? that's the way God created them.
Being Black or a POC is a social identity, you are a member of a social group. Similarly, LGBTQ+ is a social identity too. I hate the fact that some Black people - despite experiencing the pain and oppression that comes with our social identity being stigmatized and/or marginalized in Western societies - have no qualms about stigmatizing and marginalizing other social groups like LGBTQ+. If you are against racism and anti-Black racism, it is both hypocritical and ignorant Not to be against homophobia, transphobia, and heterosexism. You cannot be against one type of oppression, while touting and being for another form of oppression. SMH.
Great woman ! She does make the finer distincions and does not get pulled into narratives. Like she mentions "appropriate" vs. biased book categories. She does nevertheless not address the root cause of todays banning paranoia which is a reaction to an agenda aimed at weakening the social fabric of our society.
I love Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie! She is a voice, like Toni Morrison, and Ta-Nehisi Coates, that more need to hear, absorb and learn from. Politics and racism as a flavor of American experience has no place in education. Alas, everyone, uneducated and unexposed to urbanity as most here are, act like know-it-alls and insist on comfort in their ignorance and reject out of hand what they know naught about, and that reporters, like the one here must ask the ridiculous question-line from their question bank, Do you have hope? or Where is the hope in conversations around race, CRT, etc? Ridiculous, knee jerk interview requirement -- only in America! First of all, would you have "hope" if similarly situated? I think not! Enragement is a closer emotion, and even that is useless in the face of ignorance which is largely lacking in self-reflective perspectives and drive to become urbane. That said, please keep writing and reporting, tides change so there is hope despite the toxic brew of ignorance paired with entitlement! BTW: CRT, critical race theory, is only taught on the graduate level in college. That elementary School boards are up in arms about it and PTAs are exercised in opposition to it attests in my world to just how deep racism is cut in to the American psyche, and how critical it is to expose it for what it is as the air of knowledge and truth are the only antidotes!
I know I'm going to get pushback on this but I don't care.... I don't like Gay being mixed in with the struggle for Civil Rights. Gayness should have it's own separate fight. I don't have anything against gay people. What you do in your home is your business but It shouldn't be mixed in with the struggles of Blacks In America.
It is nauseating whenever as a black man .... I hear the black race being compared to gay people. For whatever reason stop comparing blacks to gay people
“Woke”, much & prickly??? “Gay” & “Black” cannot be mentioned in the same breath - as examples of to minority groups in the West? No one, but you, is equating one group’s experience to the other.
I agree that it is about knowledge, but it's also about teaching children how to speak the truth. By banning books your white washing and therefore you are lying; you are teaching children that it's okay to change history if you don't like what you read.
As a black person I am sick of issues concerning black people and lgbtq people being conflated as if they are one. Carry your burdens, do your own hard work. Stop using black people as conveyers/conduits/filters for your message or cause, especially as some of the vilest racists I have come across are lgbtq, whether in the closet or fully out. Using Chimamanda isn't going to change that opinion and those experiences.
Continue putting on those blinders. The experience of black people is not as fragile as you seem to suggest, & is not diminished in any way by the mention of the experience of other minority groups. That is, unless in your thinking one minority is superior & that by the very mention or reference to some other that of black people becomes tainted?
She is a Nigerian and Igbo girl by tribe. Her hair style is the Nigerian Igbo girl hairstyle. Even though she is a naturalized citizen of US, she still showcases her Nigerian identity
Chimamanda Ngozi you are a germ and a darling to to me and many readers world and especially in Africa. Your Choice of word is so magnificent and extremely better than so manny European and first English speakers who write in English. Though l love your English eloquence please write one pigeon English book the Nigerian style . l am desperately want to understand it out of reading. Listening to it does not learn me much but reading can . l am sure great comedy it will be😂😂😂
The truth is, we, all the ones under the equatorial line, or better saying, non European or non North American people are starting to feel the impact of their true view of us, as animals in zoo. All the questions, all the "empathy" of our problems is not heartfull, it's just curiosity, just poking a dog and see what it does, throwing some fruits and seeing what we like, adopting kids as pets, as their saviors... "Are you a writer? Do they read? Do they know what book is? They expect us to tell sad histories about our perspective of non europeans, just to give the feeling that we are being heard... But that's a lie. We are entertainment, otherwise, we don't have any value. Our suffering is their joy. That makes them humans, makes them superior, makes them good people, because they are listening, helping, as long as we are suffering.
I totally agree that book banning is not ideal, and I also agree that the latest series of books banning is mostly driven by the politicising of almost everything, including teaching (I would say, the indoctrination) of children in schools. I want to challenge Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on two points; 1. The people who are objecting to these books in schools and public libraries do not read. This is false. 2. I would like to know if her children attend public schools. Parents whose children attend public school know exactly what is going on. Finally, history should be taught properly, factually, and fully and not emotionally or politically.
History cannot be taught without the context of politics, and emotion. The politics of deciding what is taught is emotional. And even historians have a variety of perspectives about how history should be taught. Example: historiography, the writing of history, especially the writing of history based on the critical examination of sources vs teaching facts without context. It is factual that Europeans committed genocide on multiple continents. The Myth of American Exceptionalism. The idea that the United States is uniquely virtuous may be comforting to Americans but it is a lie but we continue to teach it. Which is improper by your own assertion.
The tares🍀 and wheat🌾 need to learn to grow together. We have to be as wise as serpents and as calm as doves, doing our best to live in peace with each other
@@MsGratefulgal you just spewed nonsense. Light and darkness will never mix. You should give birth to your child and allow a strange book teach him or her that trees have genders or that they can marry a truck, then you will know what to do to those books
@@didimarcus277 Evening is a mixture of light and darkness (transition). Evening lights or early morning lights are beautiful. Take time to observe the moments. Nature teaches better and every fact of life is a 'book' to be read and information disseminated from those facts is not 'corrupted'😊 it is our understanding which can be limited
People who embrace evil those who promote evil in the society are the one banning her book. Secondly they are afraid more money 💰 is going to come out of this book 📖
How any reasonable human being call Chimamanda an acclaimed author. What a myopic statement. Chimamanda is a qualified and a certified scholar and author. Recognized worldwide.
Saying "banned" books is so disingenuous when adults still have access to these books. As she intimated, appropriateness is what the issue is. A child shouldn't have access to just ANY book.
Though I wonder whether the "remedy" actually "cures" the supposed ailment- if I, an adult can access the banned books and bring them to my home and read and share them with my own kids, won't my kids simply become more enlightened, more compassionate, more understanding of those who may be different from them. Does reading a book about black history make a white person black or a straight person reading about LGBTQ gay after reading said book?
@@rehemaparmena4714 well, i know a white person can't be black but the other one you mentioned is debatable. I can see why people don't want to take chances with their babies. 👀
@@rehemaparmena4714 the books were showing graphic and explicit sexual imagery. that was the issue. not that it was an lgbt book or written by a member of the LGBTQ community
I disagree. Julius Malema is a great guy but he takes sides and that's dangerous as a leader. You cannot support Palestine's terror on Israel and say they are oppressed. Two wrongs don't make a right. Neutrality is key.
I have a problem with queer books being aligned with an Author such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. She has never said anything inappropriate, only told historical truths. Republicans are correct to question books with adult content in schools, however that has nothing to do with this author. Of course the Left, who wants to somehow correlate racism with so called "homophobia" is their mind blindness.
How did she say her second name again?😂😂😂😂😂 I was so sure she wouldn't be able to say her first name but miraculously she did it good... Her second name "NGOZI" in my Language kiswahili means "SKIN"
We do not mind if our children are involved in every form of depravity or experiment with every form of narcotic, we just don't want them intellectually rounded and able to make sense of the world around them, the world we have created, and then be forced to judge our actions and hypocrisy.
Please cite the date of the interview, the interviewer and the occasion of this event. It would be interesting to read/watch the commentators of the time and an explanation of the Minister's departure
In Greece, for example, the public educational system is poor. Therefore, in order to give your child the best education and knowledge, most parent have to supplement the lacks with private tutoring. Around the world, parents will need to compensate these overall failings of public education by stepping in increasingly and making sure their children have access about history, geopolitics, critical thinking, access to novels,to fiction and assuring a child becomes an educated knowledgeable person armed to be able to face the complexities of our world.
Lady Chimamanda, beauty and brains together. I love you dearly. Thanks for making Nigeria proud. Shalom.
Shalom....??? Idf speaking..?
People should please step out of their negativity. Ms Ngozi Adichie is one of the best speakers out there. I admire her level of confidence and knowledge. The way she dresses and her hairdo define her true authentic self and she does not pretend to be what she is not. As a matter of fact, she should be someone to be emulated. Thank you Ms Ngozi for making us proud!!😊
The so-called "negativity" is the reason she is famous, and draws interests, not because of "patronizing compliments."
Ofcourse she's my mentor.
Uma senhora autentica que fala so acerteza mas os donos da Terra nao gostam da verdade America e Democracia so nos livros
So para perceber e so ver a contribuicao de Holocausto em Gaza autorizar um Regime Fascista genocida de Apartheid acabar uma geracao do jovens e criancas palestinas
Her taking pictures with the war criminal Hillary Clinton was disappointing
Is she Ms or Mrs
That moment she said, "Those people who ban books dont actually read" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂. So true
How is it true? That reprogramming minds in a path that it not good for them through books you say is what?
So true 👍🏿
Yeeeees sooo true.
Just like one of the presidential candidates declared few years ago "I love the poorly educated".
lol it's actually not. people who ban books are mostly because these books try to indoctrinate children. or spread lies packaged as history. search youtube for the number of parents in public schools in the US and the kind of books they seek the school boards to ban. democrats/leftists are just disingenuous people.
Brilliant writer and icon of our generation. Thanks for telling the stories most people don't want to talk about. I love your courage!
I can listen to Ngozi all day ❤
Why does Ngozi sound like a man?
Honestly!
👍👋
Same😍
Me either
There's beauty in the ordinary. Thank you, Chimamanda.
Epic beauty , brains and novels….God bless you Chimamanda, continue to make Nigeria and Africa relevant and proud.
Did you hear what they said she did? I'm Nigerian and those books won't sell a dime in Nigeria wtf.
What did she do? Please, enlighten us.
Actually we do buy her books in Nigeria. I don't think you are a reader. Do not just say things you don't know😂@@PepTalkTillYouDrop
The speaker of truth is not liked by many people_ Plato.
I was taught about slavery in my school from the age of 7years even though I felt sad, it empowered me and made me know how my ancestors suffered in the hands of some white people who were engaged in the atrocities of slavery. The inhumanised treatments they suffered.
Black history must be taught early in schools.
I am in my 50s and we, too, were taught about slavery from Kindergarten through 12th grade. Our teachers were predominantly black, and they always reminded us of what great things our ancestors achieved even in the midst of great suffering. It was a privilege to get an education because so many of our ancestors were not allowed to attend school. Lastly, my parents, who experienced Jim Crow laws taught and modeled forgiveness! What a powerful concept forgiveness is, eh?
Don't forget about some of the black people who sold slaves, also, all the white people who were enslaved.
This is my own experience in North America the gang members trying to hurt me they are from all race black Americans and white Americans ,Africans Nigeria I was born in Nigeria Asia they members in all countries for me it’s about Good and evil people in all countries
@@tegridy9569True, up-to-date!
@@thomgrlisdebrao
"The ordinary is okay" This quote made my day. Thank you Chimamanda Adiche ❤
God bless Chimamanda. Love from your brother in Nigeria
Thank you for posting. Always a pleasure to listen to Ms. Adichie
Dear Chimamanda you are always making us proud. May God keep helping you in Jesus name. Amen.
Speak for yourself.
@@PepTalkTillYouDrop Who are you? I don't know you, so I am not referring to you (you should know that).
I know alot of people that are proud of Chimamanda as I am.
@@PepTalkTillYouDropwe are proud of her indeed
@@mutelarsorhougbe4606 Yes! Thank you.
I loved the fact that she recognised that children should not come in contact with certain books not their age...
That was really self explanatory
Truth is not allowed in certain parts of the western world.
Ngozi can endear her story telling prowess into your mind without your notice..
Is that why she's trying to feed kids with her evil agenda? I'm a Nigerian who respects her but im not a bootlicker.
People who are afraid of the truth are afraid of letting the truth known by others, especially the next generation who will stand up to challenge some truths that have been hidden for decades.
You are greatly loved and appreciated Lady Chi. N. Adichie. Thanks.
I just love this woman. So brilliant
Ms. Ngozi is one of the best writers out there with such eloquence and sound mind that learning institutions should be exposed to her work. 😊❤😊❤😊❤😊❤
The ordinary is okay. This is one of the most profound statements I’ve heard in a while and yet it’s so simple ❤ a beautifully held conversation this was
Congratulation chimamanda i admire the fact that u are real.Am a Cameroo ian living in German u make proud to be an Africa
Chimamanda is one of my favorite writers. I have ALL of her books in my personal at home library. A library I built up for more than 20 years. Banning of books is often done by those who do not read well; many are hypocrites, some wolves in sheep clothing. Reading isFUNDAMENTAL!!
I am a teacher with over 2 decades of experience, teaching and living on all the habitable continents of the world, and I am now uploading my experience unto my channel, with the aim of inspiring more people to embrace what I do. My goal is to hopefully stem this rising tide of hiding the truth, which is currently sweeping across the globe. As a Nigerian myself, Chimamanda has inspired me so much, and I know I have used her 'Danger of a Single Story' speech in all the classrooms I have entered, simply because a lot of people (by instinct) do not expect me to occupy the role I currently occupy on the international teaching stage. Children need to be exposed to crucial history and knowledge, albeit at a level appropriate for them. Wrapping them up in ignorance bliss just because someone somewhere thinks it will hurt their feeling is wrong - people who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.
This comment is so factual ..Anyone who don't know his past((History)) is bound to repeat same...HOW TRUE 100%!!
we are so proud of you sister chimamanda our prayers for you 🙌🙌
Ngozi all the way nothing wrong with ngozi but good ness
Love what you stands for Ngozi. The truth is bitter. The Lord keep and watch over you sister
Proud of Ngozi and this this host👏❤️
People who do not read are the ones who want to ban books. People whonread know that no book should ever be banned. Ideas should always be expressed and discussed.
Also bibles should be left in Libraries and should be read during classes.
Why only Bibles, we should also read other religious texts😂@@didimarcus277
Um Yes and No. The bible and any other religious book should be in Libraries yet no one should have to read it during class.@@didimarcus277
I love you Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Odeluigbo)Epitome of beauty and brains. Your seamless objective analysis with facts is fascinating. Keep it up sis.
The host is equally amazing, fantastic job.
Cheers to both of you.
She has no time for nonsense!
Ever smiling as she reels out the obvious "Truth"!
"Performative recognition..." This is fundamental to many issues of inequality.
Pls keep living for the truth you are encouraging we upcoming generation to stand for what is worth living for. Rooting for you ngozi.
She's the Best
she truly is. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a gem.
How do you think she should present her views? Please explain to me because I'm the next Chimamanda.
Very intelligent and exceptional person full of knowledge
Brilliant woman, Miss Adichie 👏🏾
Mrs Adichie
A side note, i think the host interviewer sounds so much like Kerry Washington, delightfully so! Always lovely to listen to Miss Chimamanda Adichie❤
My God Cannot Fail... Thats the meaning of your name... Chimamanda. ❤
It actually mean: my god will never failed me. Culturally within the lgbo race-tribe everyone has personal spiritual guidance known as Chim. My personal Devin God- guidance through life to eternity.
@@deblessedone1735God,
Chimamanda,you are really a genius. Continue doing us proud. God is your strength.
My favorite author any day, anytime! ❤❤
Wow! Book banning reminds me of apartheid South Africa. It is true Chimamanda, we were curious and making sure we were reading those banned books as quick as we could.
God bless you Chimamanda...You are such an icon...love from your brother ..Nigeria...
I love you for your honest view to life
You have spoken very well, quite on point, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Much love 💗💗💗
the sad future for the next generation is the loss of their creativities but it must and should not be like that
their parents should encourage it
as an African i started reading at 10years old because i lived with an uncle who read and at 73 i spend 3 hours or more a day reading feeding
my mind which is so important
people do not realise how far books could take a children they can become writers like Ngozi
Qprah Winifrey is a billionaire because of her love of books early in her life which has shaped her to be where she is
a child who loves books could become a poet, music writers etc articulate, confident so many thing he could do instead of looking for jobs
please parents especially Africans encourage your children to read and write so they do not lose their creativities
feed their minds
No one is saying books should not be read but certain books should not be open for children to read.
But rhat child could still develop well intellectually with the wide variety of books that are not banned. Books about sexual inclinations should be age specific.
They are banning books without knowing what is in there, 😂@@didimarcus277
I replayed again and again.
It was the banning of Aristotle's Metaphysics that drew the curiosity of Aquinas to secretly read it and gave back the lessons of same to the very group that banned it giving the Theology that has shaped the Western Catholicism. Motus Immobilis of Aristotle becoming the Springboard for Aquinas' Living God.
A brilliant courageous intelligent eloquent person
Beautiful Queen. Well put and great input 👏 👍 👌
wow first time witnessing such respect for an African guest, that's sweet professionalism
This Lady always reminds me about Chinua Achebe by her style of writing.
Proud of you as an African.
I love Chimamanda
Do you love me ?😅😂
If LĢBTQ books are left on the American shelves, what positive effect will it have on the American Child or Youth compared to removing It?
I wonder
It will enlighten them, broaden their perspective, help them understand about people who identify in a way that may be different to them. Banning books about LGBT does not eradicate the group from society nor does it mean that their stories don't exist because they're not available to be read on American bookshelves. Kids end up being dumbed down, unenlightened and unable to understand societal issues. Why ban books on one group, LGBT and not ban on another such as WASP or men? Why should a minority group's literature and narrative be banned? In a country that prides itself in upholding free speech? No justification in 2023, in 1823 maybe, not 2023. My two cents from Kenya.
Everyone should let kids be kids.
Literature!! Imagination. Things must have age appropriation, but as Chimamanda said, exposure to knowledge to children is crucial.
Chimamanda you are adorable❤️
Banned by people who do not read! What a nice way of saying, banned by blockheads.
As a person of color myself, I hate the fact that my skin color (something I'm born with) is being equated daily with some other person's personal CHOICE. This LGBTQ lie which started gaining wide popularity only in the last few decades is seriously disturbing and yes, I would personally ban such ideologies too.
LGBT is an ideology? What does that mean?
Ideology is from the world idea
LGBTQ is a practice. It's not an identity. (Author unknown)
@@edwardkannyo4041 I think she meant to say, lifestyle instead of ideology, if you can't force certain people to change their lifestyle, why don't you try to understand them? that's the way God created them.
Being Black or a POC is a social identity, you are a member of a social group. Similarly, LGBTQ+ is a social identity too.
I hate the fact that some Black people - despite experiencing the pain and oppression that comes with our social identity being stigmatized and/or marginalized in Western societies - have no qualms about stigmatizing and marginalizing other social groups like LGBTQ+.
If you are against racism and anti-Black racism, it is both hypocritical and ignorant Not to be against homophobia, transphobia, and heterosexism. You cannot be against one type of oppression, while touting and being for another form of oppression. SMH.
Well done my sister Ngozi ❤. Simple life is good and peaceful 🎉🎉🎉
Very sad why is it happening knowledge is forever gold
Great woman ! She does make the finer distincions and does not get pulled into narratives. Like she mentions "appropriate" vs. biased book categories. She does nevertheless not address the root cause of todays banning paranoia which is a reaction to an agenda aimed at weakening the social fabric of our society.
This is why I have my own personal Library.. I have a lot of books that they pulled but I got them. Build your own Library people in your home.
That is exactly what I wanted to say for children of inquisitive minds- ‘ they will always want to read banned books more’. Lol
I love Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie! She is a voice, like Toni Morrison, and Ta-Nehisi Coates, that more need to hear, absorb and learn from.
Politics and racism as a flavor of American experience has no place in education. Alas, everyone, uneducated and unexposed to urbanity as most here are, act like know-it-alls and insist on comfort in their ignorance and reject out of hand what they know naught about, and that reporters, like the one here must ask the ridiculous question-line from their question bank, Do you have hope? or Where is the hope in conversations around race, CRT, etc? Ridiculous, knee jerk interview requirement
-- only in America!
First of all, would you have "hope" if similarly situated? I think not! Enragement is a closer emotion, and even that is useless in the face of ignorance which is largely lacking in self-reflective perspectives and drive to become urbane.
That said, please keep writing and reporting, tides change so there is hope despite the toxic brew of ignorance paired with entitlement!
BTW: CRT, critical race theory, is only taught on the graduate level in college. That elementary School boards are up in arms about it and PTAs are exercised in opposition to it attests in my world to just how deep racism is cut in to the American psyche, and how critical it is to expose it for what it is as the air of knowledge and truth are the only antidotes!
The truth hurts and the past is now haunting the present that is why you are banned just for speaking the truth .we love you Africa loves you
I know I'm going to get pushback on this but I don't care.... I don't like Gay being mixed in with the struggle for Civil Rights. Gayness should have it's own separate fight. I don't have anything against gay people. What you do in your home is your business but It shouldn't be mixed in with the struggles of Blacks In America.
Tell that To Rustin Bayard, james Baldwin, Donald shirley
Greetings from Paris and from global Black family
Africa will love your books. They will in the school carriculumn. You are successful and young. 💕
Real Igbo woman. Epic beauty with brains, Chimamanda she's the best
It is nauseating whenever as a black man .... I hear the black race being compared to gay people. For whatever reason stop comparing blacks to gay people
“Woke”, much & prickly??? “Gay” & “Black” cannot be mentioned in the same breath - as examples of to minority groups in the West? No one, but you, is equating one group’s experience to the other.
I agree that it is about knowledge, but it's also about teaching children how to speak the truth. By banning books your white washing and therefore you are lying; you are teaching children that it's okay to change history if you don't like what you read.
As a black person I am sick of issues concerning black people and lgbtq people being conflated as if they are one. Carry your burdens, do your own hard work. Stop using black people as conveyers/conduits/filters for your message or cause, especially as some of the vilest racists I have come across are lgbtq, whether in the closet or fully out. Using Chimamanda isn't going to change that opinion and those experiences.
Continue putting on those blinders. The experience of black people is not as fragile as you seem to suggest, & is not diminished in any way by the mention of the experience of other minority groups. That is, unless in your thinking one minority is superior & that by the very mention or reference to some other that of black people becomes tainted?
I love ordinary, people are putting too much pressure on themselves to be beyond
She is a Nigerian and Igbo girl by tribe. Her hair style is the Nigerian Igbo girl hairstyle.
Even though she is a naturalized citizen of US, she still showcases her Nigerian identity
And what happened
Chimamanda Ngozi you are a germ and a darling to to me and many readers world and especially in Africa. Your Choice of word is so magnificent and extremely better than so manny European and first English speakers who write in English. Though l love your English eloquence please write one pigeon English book the Nigerian style . l am desperately want to understand it out of reading. Listening to it does not learn me much but reading can . l am sure great comedy it will be😂😂😂
A gem
The truth is, we, all the ones under the equatorial line, or better saying, non European or non North American people are starting to feel the impact of their true view of us, as animals in zoo. All the questions, all the "empathy" of our problems is not heartfull, it's just curiosity, just poking a dog and see what it does, throwing some fruits and seeing what we like, adopting kids as pets, as their saviors... "Are you a writer? Do they read? Do they know what book is? They expect us to tell sad histories about our perspective of non europeans, just to give the feeling that we are being heard... But that's a lie. We are entertainment, otherwise, we don't have any value. Our suffering is their joy. That makes them humans, makes them superior, makes them good people, because they are listening, helping, as long as we are suffering.
"The ordinary is enough" in a world where extraordinary is seemingly being taken for granted
I totally agree that book banning is not ideal, and I also agree that the latest series of books banning is mostly driven by the politicising of almost everything, including teaching (I would say, the indoctrination) of children in schools.
I want to challenge Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on two points;
1. The people who are objecting to these books in schools and public libraries do not read. This is false.
2. I would like to know if her children attend public schools. Parents whose children attend public school know exactly what is going on.
Finally, history should be taught properly, factually, and fully and not emotionally or politically.
Thank you so much. You are smarter than Ngozi.😊
History cannot be taught without the context of politics, and emotion. The politics of deciding what is taught is emotional. And even historians have a variety of perspectives about how history should be taught. Example: historiography, the writing of history, especially the writing of history based on the critical examination of sources vs teaching facts without context. It is factual that Europeans committed genocide on multiple continents. The Myth of American Exceptionalism. The idea that the United States is uniquely virtuous may be comforting to Americans but it is a lie but we continue to teach it. Which is improper by your own assertion.
The tares🍀 and wheat🌾 need to learn to grow together. We have to be as wise as serpents and as calm as doves, doing our best to live in peace with each other
@@MsGratefulgal you just spewed nonsense. Light and darkness will never mix. You should give birth to your child and allow a strange book teach him or her that trees have genders or that they can marry a truck, then you will know what to do to those books
@@didimarcus277 Evening is a mixture of light and darkness (transition). Evening lights or early morning lights are beautiful. Take time to observe the moments.
Nature teaches better and every fact of life is a 'book' to be read and information disseminated from those facts is not 'corrupted'😊 it is our understanding which can be limited
People who embrace evil those who promote evil in the society are the one banning her book. Secondly they are afraid more money 💰 is going to come out of this book 📖
@:40 Banning the Life of Rosa Parks, what has this country come to.
It's exactly what it always was..a paradise for racist
That's my favourite.....chimamanda
How any reasonable human being call Chimamanda an acclaimed author. What a myopic statement.
Chimamanda is a qualified and a certified scholar and author.
Recognized worldwide.
She is elegant and gorgeous.
Performative recognition 😂 jep she knows what’s up, love her she is very mich appreciated by those who live in reality
Thanks for sharing
Saying "banned" books is so disingenuous when adults still have access to these books. As she intimated, appropriateness is what the issue is. A child shouldn't have access to just ANY book.
Brilliantly said and thank you sooo much.
Though I wonder whether the "remedy" actually "cures" the supposed ailment- if I, an adult can access the banned books and bring them to my home and read and share them with my own kids, won't my kids simply become more enlightened, more compassionate, more understanding of those who may be different from them. Does reading a book about black history make a white person black or a straight person reading about LGBTQ gay after reading said book?
@@rehemaparmena4714 well, i know a white person can't be black but the other one you mentioned is debatable. I can see why people don't want to take chances with their babies. 👀
@@rehemaparmena4714 the books were showing graphic and explicit sexual imagery. that was the issue. not that it was an lgbt book or written by a member of the LGBTQ community
15:28 that’s what makes us human, the picture in the background is priceless. What shoe size are we really?
Profound Love for You Queen Chimamanda Adichie. Ada di orah mma. Yagazieeeee
Good presentation
Thank goodness for Chimamanda's maturity.She is no longer preaching extreme feminism.It's now about femininity.
Dey play😂
One Africa One currency One Army and One President and that's Julius Malema
I disagree. Julius Malema is a great guy but he takes sides and that's dangerous as a leader. You cannot support Palestine's terror on Israel and say they are oppressed. Two wrongs don't make a right. Neutrality is key.
He will lead only South Africa
I have a problem with queer books being aligned with an Author such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. She has never said anything inappropriate, only told historical truths. Republicans are correct to question books with adult content in schools, however that has nothing to do with this author. Of course the Left, who wants to somehow correlate racism with so called "homophobia" is their mind blindness.
highly phenomenal !
How did she say her second name again?😂😂😂😂😂
I was so sure she wouldn't be able to say her first name but miraculously she did it good...
Her second name "NGOZI" in my Language kiswahili means "SKIN"
Ngozi is a Igbo name from the Igbo speaking people of Nigeria. Ngozichukwuka which means blessing from God.❤❤
KNOWLEDGE IS READING/ WISDOM IS READING/ UNDERSTANDING IS READING.
We do not mind if our children are involved in every form of depravity or experiment with every form of narcotic, we just don't want them intellectually rounded and able to make sense of the world around them, the world we have created, and then be forced to judge our actions and hypocrisy.
Quintessential lady. this Chimamanda Adichie
Please cite the date of the interview, the interviewer and the occasion of this event. It would be interesting to read/watch the commentators of the time and an explanation of the Minister's departure
Blessed lady
In Greece, for example, the public educational system is poor. Therefore, in order to give your child the best education and knowledge, most parent have to supplement the lacks with private tutoring. Around the world, parents will need to compensate these overall failings of public education by stepping in increasingly and making sure their children have access about history, geopolitics, critical thinking, access to novels,to fiction and assuring a child becomes an educated knowledgeable person armed to be able to face the complexities of our world.
Interesting. She is always real
Now the World will want to know the Treasures you talking about that were stolen, it will surprise them.