Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie noted : “she was Black and she didn’t apologize for her Blackness;”

ngrguardiannews Sunday, August 11, 2019 7:49:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie noted : “she was Black and she didn’t apologize for her Blackness;”

guardian-ng Sunday, August 11, 2019 7:33:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie explained ( about Binyavanga Wainaina ) : "In December 2012, his friend — a fellow gay man who had also spent his life mired in pretense — got sick. Even as he lay dying, he could not tell his family that he was sick. His death broke Binyavanga's spirit," "The best-known Kenyan writer of his generation, he felt an obligation to chip away at the shame that made people like his friend die in silence"

minnesota-publicradio Thursday, May 23, 2019 6:26:00 PM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie explained ( about Binyavanga Wainaina ) : "In December 2012, his friend — a fellow gay man who had also spent his life mired in pretense — got sick. Even as he lay dying, he could not tell his family that he was sick. His death broke Binyavanga's spirit," "The best-known Kenyan writer of his generation, he felt an obligation to chip away at the shame that made people like his friend die in silence"

kenyastar Thursday, May 23, 2019 5:15:00 PM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wrote : “By publicly and courageously declaring that he is a gay African,”

nytimes Thursday, May 23, 2019 2:57:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie explained ( about Binyavanga Wainaina ) : "In December 2012, his friend — a fellow gay man who had also spent his life mired in pretense — got sick. Even as he lay dying, he could not tell his family that he was sick. His death broke Binyavanga's spirit," "The best-known Kenyan writer of his generation, he felt an obligation to chip away at the shame that made people like his friend die in silence"

npr Wednesday, May 22, 2019 9:16:00 PM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said : “South Africa is in many ways an inspiration to many parts of the African continent,”

businessday Tuesday, December 11, 2018 7:25:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said ( about Nelson Mandela ) : “What I’ve learnt is that we do not want to hear the truths that we do not like. In Mandela’s writings, he refers to himself as a sinner who keeps on trying. The premise of oppression is to dehumanise. When the response is to dehumanise back, then you go backwards,” “I think humanizing him, acknowledging that he wasn’t perfect, isn’t denigrating him. When we do that, we realize that there’s a lot that we ourselves can do. It seems like everyone tries to own him. Some have turned him into a sanitized glass urn. Others really engage with who he was and what he thought”

citizen Friday, December 7, 2018 9:17:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said ( about Nelson Mandela ) : "What I've learnt is that we do not want to hear the truths that we do not like. In Mandela's writings, he refers to himself as a sinner who keeps on trying. The premise of oppression is to dehumanise. When the response is to dehumanise back, then you go backwards," "I think humanising him, acknowledging that he wasn't perfect, isn't denigrating him. When we do that, we realise that there's a lot that we ourselves can do. It seems like everyone tries to own him. Some have turned him into a sanitised glass urn. Others really engage with who he was and what he thought"

the-star Friday, December 7, 2018 8:32:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said ( about Nelson Mandela ) : "What I've learnt is that we do not want to hear the truths that we do not like. In Mandela's writings, he refers to himself as a sinner who keeps on trying. The premise of oppression is to dehumanise. When the response is to dehumanise back, then you go backwards," "I think humanising him, acknowledging that he wasn't perfect, isn't denigrating him. When we do that, we realise that there's a lot that we ourselves can do. It seems like everyone tries to own him. Some have turned him into a sanitised glass urn. Others really engage with who he was and what he thought"

iol Friday, December 7, 2018 7:45:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie diz : "Para mim, escrever ficção é um processo de contar a minha própria verdade e, ao mesmo tempo, espero levar outras pessoas comigo"

correio24horas Tuesday, August 29, 2017 2:19:00 PM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie skriver : »For mig er feminisme altid kontekstuel«

politiken-en Thursday, March 9, 2017 11:15:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wrote : “To say that I responded ‘emotionally’ to the election was to say that I had not engaged my intellect,”

dailytrust Sunday, December 4, 2016 8:42:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie responded : “I’m sorry, but as a white man, you don’t get to define what racism is, you really don’t. You don’t get to sit there and say he hasn’t been racist when objectively he has”

huffingtonpost-us-en Tuesday, November 29, 2016 12:42:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie explained : “To say that I responded ‘emotionally’ to the election was to say that I had not engaged my intellect,”

huffingtonpost-us-en Tuesday, November 29, 2016 12:42:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said ( about Donald Trump ) : “No, of course you can. I am just saying to you that Donald Trump has shown us and has said things that are objectively racist”

msn-uk Sunday, November 13, 2016 7:59:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie replied : “If he says to us, for example, that a judge - a United States judge - is unable to judge him fairly because he is Mexican, that is racist - objectively racist”

msn-uk Sunday, November 13, 2016 7:59:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said ( about Donald Trump ) : “No, of course you can. I am just saying to you that Donald Trump has shown us and has said things that are objectively racist”

huffingtonpost-uk-en Saturday, November 12, 2016 11:12:00 PM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie replied : “If he says to us, for example, that a judge - a United States judge - is unable to judge him fairly because he is Mexican, that is racist - objectively racist”

huffingtonpost-uk-en Saturday, November 12, 2016 11:12:00 PM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said : ”I love makeup, and its wonderful possibilities for temporary transformation. And I also love my face after I wash it all off,” “There is something exquisitely enjoyable about seeing yourself with a self-made new look. And for me that look is deeply personal”

huffingtonpost-us-en Friday, October 28, 2016 8:09:00 PM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie writes : “My own definition of a feminist is a man or a woman who says, ‘Yes, there’s a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it, we must do better,’”

dailytrust Thursday, October 27, 2016 9:38:00 PM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said : “He had an opportunity to make real reforms early on, to boldly reshape Nigeria’s path. He wasted it,”

onlinenigeria Thursday, October 20, 2016 3:36:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said : “He had an opportunity to make real reforms early on, to boldly reshape Nigeria’s path. He wasted it,”

ngrguardiannews Wednesday, October 19, 2016 10:23:00 PM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wrote : “Because [Obama] said what she thought, and because she smiled only when she felt like smiling, and not constantly and vacuously, America’s cheapest caricature was cast on her: the Angry Black Woman,” “Women, in general, are not permitted anger — but from black American women, there is an added expectation of interminable gratitude, the closer to groveling the better, as though their citizenship is a phenomenon that they cannot take for granted”

eurweb Tuesday, October 18, 2016 8:37:00 PM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said : "Her type of feminism is not mine, as it is the kind that, at the same time, gives quite a lot of space to the necessity of men. I think men are lovely, but I don't think that women should relate everything they do to men"

ibtimes-uk Thursday, October 13, 2016 5:16:00 PM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said : “Another thing I hated was that I read everywhere: now people finally know her, thanks to Beyoncé, or: she must be very grateful,”

eurweb Wednesday, October 12, 2016 1:05:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie says : “I found that disappointing. I thought: I am a writer and I have been for some time and I refuse to perform in this charade that is now apparently expected of me: ‘Thanks to Beyoncé, my life will never be the same again.’ That’s why [I] didn’t speak about it much.’”

eurweb Wednesday, October 12, 2016 1:05:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie told : “Her style is not my style, but I do find it interesting that she takes a stand in political and social issues, since a few years,”

eurweb Wednesday, October 12, 2016 1:05:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said : “Discovering African literature saved me from having a single story of what books are,”

JakartaPost Saturday, September 24, 2016 3:47:00 PM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie told : “This is just very sugary, very sweet,”

sunnewsonline Saturday, September 17, 2016 5:53:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said : "I think often of that moment," "Because I wonder if my parents would have survived the war had they not benefited from that act of kindness"

cnn Friday, August 26, 2016 2:17:00 PM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie told : “She just seems to me really intelligent, thoughtful, reasonable,”

huffingtonpost-us-en Friday, August 19, 2016 2:59:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie added : “At the end [of the movie] I was crying-I wrote the novel but I was still like ‘What’s going to happen in the end?’”

dailytrust Sunday, August 14, 2016 7:44:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said : “Reading is part of any writing experience. Reading is fun, it’s something that you should do because it’s enjoyable”

vanguardngr Thursday, August 11, 2016 4:24:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said : “Reading is part of any writing experience. Reading is fun, it’s something that you should do because it’s enjoyable”

vanguardngr Thursday, August 4, 2016 4:36:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie writes : "She sagged suddenly with terror, imagining what would happen if Donald actually won," "Everything would change. Her contentment would crack into pieces. The relentless intrusions into their lives; those horrible media people who never gave Donald any credit would get even worse"

bostonherald Saturday, July 16, 2016 6:43:00 PM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie writes : “She sagged suddenly with terror, imagining what would happen if Donald actually won,” “Everything would change. Her contentment would crack into pieces. The relentless intrusions into their lives; those horrible media people who never gave Donald any credit would get even worse”

seattletimes Saturday, July 16, 2016 1:20:00 PM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie writes : "She sagged suddenly with terror, imagining what would happen if Donald actually won," "Everything would change. Her contentment would crack into pieces. The relentless intrusions into their lives; those horrible media people who never gave Donald any credit would get even worse"

nzherald Saturday, July 16, 2016 12:17:00 PM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie writes : "She sagged suddenly with terror, imagining what would happen if Donald actually won," "Everything would change. Her contentment would crack into pieces. The relentless intrusions into their lives; those horrible media people who never gave Donald any credit would get even worse"

startribune Saturday, July 16, 2016 11:15:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie : "Je suis devenue noire aux États-Unis"

france24 Wednesday, June 29, 2016 1:21:00 PM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said : “Brazil is in denial about the racial issue”

nytimes Monday, March 23, 2015 2:13:00 PM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie says : "We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, ‘You can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise you will threaten the man," "We raise girls to see each other as competitors — not for jobs or for accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men"

bdlive Friday, March 20, 2015 10:22:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie says : "We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, ‘You can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise you will threaten the man," "We raise girls to see each other as competitors — not for jobs or for accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men"

businessday Friday, March 20, 2015 9:29:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said : “Nigerians are politically astute enough to know that the postponement has nothing to do with security”

herald Wednesday, March 18, 2015 1:38:00 PM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie noted : “she was Black and she didn’t apologize for her Blackness;”

ngrguardiannews Sunday, August 11, 2019 7:49:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie noted : “she was Black and she didn’t apologize for her Blackness;”

guardian-ng Sunday, August 11, 2019 7:33:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie explained ( about Binyavanga Wainaina ) : "In December 2012, his friend — a fellow gay man who had also spent his life mired in pretense — got sick. Even as he lay dying, he could not tell his family that he was sick. His death broke Binyavanga's spirit," "The best-known Kenyan writer of his generation, he felt an obligation to chip away at the shame that made people like his friend die in silence"

minnesota-publicradio Thursday, May 23, 2019 6:26:00 PM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie explained ( about Binyavanga Wainaina ) : "In December 2012, his friend — a fellow gay man who had also spent his life mired in pretense — got sick. Even as he lay dying, he could not tell his family that he was sick. His death broke Binyavanga's spirit," "The best-known Kenyan writer of his generation, he felt an obligation to chip away at the shame that made people like his friend die in silence"

kenyastar Thursday, May 23, 2019 5:15:00 PM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wrote : “By publicly and courageously declaring that he is a gay African,”

nytimes Thursday, May 23, 2019 2:57:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie explained ( about Binyavanga Wainaina ) : "In December 2012, his friend — a fellow gay man who had also spent his life mired in pretense — got sick. Even as he lay dying, he could not tell his family that he was sick. His death broke Binyavanga's spirit," "The best-known Kenyan writer of his generation, he felt an obligation to chip away at the shame that made people like his friend die in silence"

npr Wednesday, May 22, 2019 9:16:00 PM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said : “South Africa is in many ways an inspiration to many parts of the African continent,”

businessday Tuesday, December 11, 2018 7:25:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said ( about Nelson Mandela ) : “What I’ve learnt is that we do not want to hear the truths that we do not like. In Mandela’s writings, he refers to himself as a sinner who keeps on trying. The premise of oppression is to dehumanise. When the response is to dehumanise back, then you go backwards,” “I think humanizing him, acknowledging that he wasn’t perfect, isn’t denigrating him. When we do that, we realize that there’s a lot that we ourselves can do. It seems like everyone tries to own him. Some have turned him into a sanitized glass urn. Others really engage with who he was and what he thought”

citizen Friday, December 7, 2018 9:17:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said ( about Nelson Mandela ) : "What I've learnt is that we do not want to hear the truths that we do not like. In Mandela's writings, he refers to himself as a sinner who keeps on trying. The premise of oppression is to dehumanise. When the response is to dehumanise back, then you go backwards," "I think humanising him, acknowledging that he wasn't perfect, isn't denigrating him. When we do that, we realise that there's a lot that we ourselves can do. It seems like everyone tries to own him. Some have turned him into a sanitised glass urn. Others really engage with who he was and what he thought"

the-star Friday, December 7, 2018 8:32:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said ( about Nelson Mandela ) : "What I've learnt is that we do not want to hear the truths that we do not like. In Mandela's writings, he refers to himself as a sinner who keeps on trying. The premise of oppression is to dehumanise. When the response is to dehumanise back, then you go backwards," "I think humanising him, acknowledging that he wasn't perfect, isn't denigrating him. When we do that, we realise that there's a lot that we ourselves can do. It seems like everyone tries to own him. Some have turned him into a sanitised glass urn. Others really engage with who he was and what he thought"

iol Friday, December 7, 2018 7:45:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie diz : "Para mim, escrever ficção é um processo de contar a minha própria verdade e, ao mesmo tempo, espero levar outras pessoas comigo"

correio24horas Tuesday, August 29, 2017 2:19:00 PM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie skriver : »For mig er feminisme altid kontekstuel«

politiken-en Thursday, March 9, 2017 11:15:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wrote : “To say that I responded ‘emotionally’ to the election was to say that I had not engaged my intellect,”

dailytrust Sunday, December 4, 2016 8:42:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie responded : “I’m sorry, but as a white man, you don’t get to define what racism is, you really don’t. You don’t get to sit there and say he hasn’t been racist when objectively he has”

huffingtonpost-us-en Tuesday, November 29, 2016 12:42:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie explained : “To say that I responded ‘emotionally’ to the election was to say that I had not engaged my intellect,”

huffingtonpost-us-en Tuesday, November 29, 2016 12:42:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said ( about Donald Trump ) : “No, of course you can. I am just saying to you that Donald Trump has shown us and has said things that are objectively racist”

msn-uk Sunday, November 13, 2016 7:59:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie replied : “If he says to us, for example, that a judge - a United States judge - is unable to judge him fairly because he is Mexican, that is racist - objectively racist”

msn-uk Sunday, November 13, 2016 7:59:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said ( about Donald Trump ) : “No, of course you can. I am just saying to you that Donald Trump has shown us and has said things that are objectively racist”

huffingtonpost-uk-en Saturday, November 12, 2016 11:12:00 PM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie replied : “If he says to us, for example, that a judge - a United States judge - is unable to judge him fairly because he is Mexican, that is racist - objectively racist”

huffingtonpost-uk-en Saturday, November 12, 2016 11:12:00 PM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said : ”I love makeup, and its wonderful possibilities for temporary transformation. And I also love my face after I wash it all off,” “There is something exquisitely enjoyable about seeing yourself with a self-made new look. And for me that look is deeply personal”

huffingtonpost-us-en Friday, October 28, 2016 8:09:00 PM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie writes : “My own definition of a feminist is a man or a woman who says, ‘Yes, there’s a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it, we must do better,’”

dailytrust Thursday, October 27, 2016 9:38:00 PM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said : “He had an opportunity to make real reforms early on, to boldly reshape Nigeria’s path. He wasted it,”

onlinenigeria Thursday, October 20, 2016 3:36:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said : “He had an opportunity to make real reforms early on, to boldly reshape Nigeria’s path. He wasted it,”

ngrguardiannews Wednesday, October 19, 2016 10:23:00 PM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wrote : “Because [Obama] said what she thought, and because she smiled only when she felt like smiling, and not constantly and vacuously, America’s cheapest caricature was cast on her: the Angry Black Woman,” “Women, in general, are not permitted anger — but from black American women, there is an added expectation of interminable gratitude, the closer to groveling the better, as though their citizenship is a phenomenon that they cannot take for granted”

eurweb Tuesday, October 18, 2016 8:37:00 PM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said : "Her type of feminism is not mine, as it is the kind that, at the same time, gives quite a lot of space to the necessity of men. I think men are lovely, but I don't think that women should relate everything they do to men"

ibtimes-uk Thursday, October 13, 2016 5:16:00 PM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said : “Another thing I hated was that I read everywhere: now people finally know her, thanks to Beyoncé, or: she must be very grateful,”

eurweb Wednesday, October 12, 2016 1:05:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie says : “I found that disappointing. I thought: I am a writer and I have been for some time and I refuse to perform in this charade that is now apparently expected of me: ‘Thanks to Beyoncé, my life will never be the same again.’ That’s why [I] didn’t speak about it much.’”

eurweb Wednesday, October 12, 2016 1:05:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie told : “Her style is not my style, but I do find it interesting that she takes a stand in political and social issues, since a few years,”

eurweb Wednesday, October 12, 2016 1:05:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said : “Discovering African literature saved me from having a single story of what books are,”

JakartaPost Saturday, September 24, 2016 3:47:00 PM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie told : “This is just very sugary, very sweet,”

sunnewsonline Saturday, September 17, 2016 5:53:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said : "I think often of that moment," "Because I wonder if my parents would have survived the war had they not benefited from that act of kindness"

cnn Friday, August 26, 2016 2:17:00 PM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie told : “She just seems to me really intelligent, thoughtful, reasonable,”

huffingtonpost-us-en Friday, August 19, 2016 2:59:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie added : “At the end [of the movie] I was crying-I wrote the novel but I was still like ‘What’s going to happen in the end?’”

dailytrust Sunday, August 14, 2016 7:44:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said : “Reading is part of any writing experience. Reading is fun, it’s something that you should do because it’s enjoyable”

vanguardngr Thursday, August 11, 2016 4:24:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said : “Reading is part of any writing experience. Reading is fun, it’s something that you should do because it’s enjoyable”

vanguardngr Thursday, August 4, 2016 4:36:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie writes : "She sagged suddenly with terror, imagining what would happen if Donald actually won," "Everything would change. Her contentment would crack into pieces. The relentless intrusions into their lives; those horrible media people who never gave Donald any credit would get even worse"

bostonherald Saturday, July 16, 2016 6:43:00 PM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie writes : “She sagged suddenly with terror, imagining what would happen if Donald actually won,” “Everything would change. Her contentment would crack into pieces. The relentless intrusions into their lives; those horrible media people who never gave Donald any credit would get even worse”

seattletimes Saturday, July 16, 2016 1:20:00 PM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie writes : "She sagged suddenly with terror, imagining what would happen if Donald actually won," "Everything would change. Her contentment would crack into pieces. The relentless intrusions into their lives; those horrible media people who never gave Donald any credit would get even worse"

nzherald Saturday, July 16, 2016 12:17:00 PM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie writes : "She sagged suddenly with terror, imagining what would happen if Donald actually won," "Everything would change. Her contentment would crack into pieces. The relentless intrusions into their lives; those horrible media people who never gave Donald any credit would get even worse"

startribune Saturday, July 16, 2016 11:15:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie : "Je suis devenue noire aux États-Unis"

france24 Wednesday, June 29, 2016 1:21:00 PM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said : “Brazil is in denial about the racial issue”

nytimes Monday, March 23, 2015 2:13:00 PM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie says : "We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, ‘You can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise you will threaten the man," "We raise girls to see each other as competitors — not for jobs or for accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men"

bdlive Friday, March 20, 2015 10:22:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie says : "We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, ‘You can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise you will threaten the man," "We raise girls to see each other as competitors — not for jobs or for accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men"

businessday Friday, March 20, 2015 9:29:00 AM EAT

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said : “Nigerians are politically astute enough to know that the postponement has nothing to do with security”

herald Wednesday, March 18, 2015 1:38:00 PM EAT