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Sunday Reading: Talks by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

This Blog is a part of Sunday Reading activity task; it's given by Dr. Dilip Barad Sir,  to know about the Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and we have to discuss three videos given below.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Born on 15 September 1977,she is a Nizerian Novelist, writer of short stories.

She has written the below novels:-

'Purple Hibiscus',
'Half of a Yellow Sun',
'Americanah'


Short Stories:-

'The thing Around your Neck',
'We should all be Feminist'

In 2008, Adichie was awarded a macarthur genius grant. she was described in the times literary supplement as "the most prominent" of a " procession of critically acclaimed young Anglophone authors is succeeding in attracting a new generation of readers to Africa literature."


1) Talk on importance of Story:-


Ngozi Adichie is very good speaker. 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.





2) We Should All Be Feminist:


Second video about the feminism. A very interesting talk on feminism that how social norms discriminate women 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 women, there are many natural difference between men and women in body organs but women have equal ability same as men.

We make happier world in which men and women 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, because according to her, Truth is more important. Her thought is to be loyal with ourselves to tell the truth.

She shares her experience of lying in hospital in front of a doctor about her height.

Other experience, She was a great fan of some of the writer but she was not knowing the one name of his works.


Post truth is very dangerous weapon in this 21st century, especially political parties make use of this kind of weapon to provocate riots, She said  Media must be for truth. Neither for profit nor for entertainment.



Thank You...