![]() Not just Nigeria, across the continent in Africa. I could ask the question to the French, do people read in France, I think less and less so.”Īdichie: I think it reflects very poorly on French people that you have to ask me that question.Īdichie: Surely, it’s 2018. Americanah tells the story of a young Nigerian woman, Ifemelu, who immigrates to the United States to attend university. National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. That’s why I’m saying “are there bookshops,” of course I imagine there are. Americanah is a 2013 novel by the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, for which Adichie won the 2013 U.S. ![]() Now I should like you to tell us something about Nigeria which is different, talk about it differently. ![]() ![]() “It’s about violence, it’s about security. During an overseas event, “Americana” author Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie was asked an insultingly ignorant question about her native country.Īdichie, who is Nigerian, recently attended a “Night of Ideas” event in France where the outspoken feminist was interviewed by a French journalist. Caroline Broué asked Adichie, whose “We Should All Be Feminists” essay which was distributed among Nigerian teenage girls, about the country’s literacy:īroué: Do people read your books in Nigeria?īroué: You were talking about single stories, now when you talk about Nigeria in France, unfortunately, there is not much said about Nigeria, but when people talk about Nigeria it’s about Boko Haram,” she claimed. ![]()
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