Thinking activity:About Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Maharaja Krishnakumar Singhji Bhavnagar University, Head of English Department Dr. Dilip Barad gave this work to students through blogs - Work: In which listen to this talk by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Fear of a story, should we all be feminists? Post. The importance of truth in the post-truth era.to know more about the task Click here

About Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, born September 15, 1977, Enugu, Nigeria, Nigerian author whose work drew extensively on the Biafran war in Nigeria during the late 1960s. Early in life Adichie, the fifth of six children moved with her parents to Nsukka, Nigeria. A voracious reader from a young age, she found Things Fall Apart by novelist and fellow Igbo Chinua Achebe transformative. After studying medicine for a time in Nsukka, in 1997 she left for the United States, where she studied communication and political science at Eastern Connecticut State University (B.A., 2001). Splitting her time between Nigeria and the United States, she received a master’s degree in creative writing from Johns Hopkins University and studied African history at Yale University.

In 1998 Adichie’s play For Love of Biafra was published in Nigeria. She later dismissed it as “an awfully melodramatic play,” but it was among the earliest works in which she explored the war in the late 1960s between Nigeria and its secessionist Biafra republic. She later wrote several short stories about that conflict, which would become the subject of her highly successful novel Half of a Yellow Sun (2006). As a student at Eastern Connecticut State University, she began writing her first novel, Purple Hibiscus (2003). Set in Nigeria, it is the coming-of-age story of Kambili, a 15-year-old whose family is wealthy and well respected but who is terrorized by her fanatically religious father. Purple Hibiscus garnered the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in 2005 for Best First Book (Africa) and that year’s Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book (overall). It was also short-listed for the 2004 Orange Prize later called the Orange Broadband Prize and now the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction. Half of a Yellow Sun (2006; film 2013), Adichie’s second novel, was the result of four years of research and writing. It was built primarily on the experiences of her parents during the Nigeria-Biafra war. The result was an epic novel that vividly depicted the savagery of the war (which resulted in the displacement and deaths of perhaps a million people) but did so by focusing on a small group of characters, mostly middle-class Africans. Half of a Yellow Sun became an international bestseller and was awarded the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction in 2007. Eight years later it won the “Best of the Best” Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, a special award for the “best” prizewinner from the previous decade.

1) Talk on the importance of Story

2) We Should All Be Feminist

3) Talk on the importance of Truth in the Post-Truth Era

The feminist theory encompasses a range of diverse ideas, all of which originate with the following beliefs: society is patriarchal, structured by and favoring men, traditional ways of thinking support the subordination of women and the neglect or trivialization of issues particularly affecting women, this patriarchal order should be overthrown and replaced with a system that stresses equality for both sexes. Feminist theory impacts all institutions—medical, legal, academic, and social, for example—and can be used to illumine all issues affecting humans. The diversity of thought within feminist theory lies in the fact that women across the world differ from each other in many ways—including race, ethnicity, nationality, class, sexual orientation, or educational background, for example—and that these differences result in varying views of feminism and gender equality as expressed in liberal feminist, Marxist–socialist, radical ‘libertarian’ and radical ‘cultural,’ postmodern, and global feminist theories. Yet for all the diversity within feminist theory, there remains the belief that despite women's many differences, women everywhere share some basic ‘sameness.’’ We should give more weight to the issue of equality than feminist ideology, so that female discrimination can be avoided, but in the present case, women get the right to equality.

Women should seek respect, honor, equality, etc. 

for men, but women should achieve self-sufficiency.

-sanj

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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Chimamanda-Ngozi-Adichie