The award winning writer talks about her journey as a writer, her devotion to feminism and more... An interesting excerpt below
The oppression of
women, she says, "Makes me angry. I can't
not be angry. I don't know how you can just be calm. My family says
to me, 'Oh, you're such a man!' - you know, very lovingly… But of
course I'm not, I just don't see why I shouldn't speak my mind."
She got into trouble for speaking her mind in Nigeria: when an
interviewer addressed her as Mrs Chimamanda Adichie, she corrected
him, saying she wished to be known as "Ms", which the journalist
reported as "Miss".
Her insistence on her own family name was all
over the news here last spring. She should be happy to be addressed
as "Mrs", she was told, since she was, after all, married. She
laughs now, but it's clear the story still disturbs her. "It was
the lack of gratitude on my part for having a husband. And yet I
didn't want to proclaim it: I wanted to claim my own
name."
Read the full interview
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