Chimamanda Adichie

Chimamnda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria.

Her work has been translated into over thirty languages and hasa appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker, Granta, The O. Henry Prize Stories, the Financial Times, and Zoetrope. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize and the Hurston/write Legacy Award; Half of a yellow Sun, which won the Orange Prize and was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist and a New York Times Notable Book; and Americanah, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named one of The New York Times Top Ten Best Books of 2013. Ms. Adichie is also the author of the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck.

Ms. Adichie has been invited to speak around the world. Her 2009 TED Talk, The Danger of A Single Story, is now one of the most – viewed TED Talks of all time. Her 2012 talk We Should All Be Feminism has a started a world wide conversation about feminism, and was published as a book in 2014.

Her most recent book, Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, was a published in March 2017.

A recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, Ms. Adichie divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.

First Video

She gave her views on marriage. She told that marriage is not a means of happiness. It just rituals which is beyond from reality. She believed that live is most important thing as well as the most necessary human emotions. We all are a social animal and the language of marriage is a subordinate and propriatory language. Always teach the child that a respected woman should be shown to man.

Second video

People always used to teach omen’s to give sacrifice or compromise in every relationship or in their married life we never ever think accomplished to raise women as a competitor as a fighter. Women and women’s body is for to drag men’s attention. She talked about the physical state of women or any girls, we came to know that we always judge a girl for their virginity the honesty. This is very strange that we never please a boy for their virginity and also never abused them for that.

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