I honestly cannot think of any author who writes essays as equally hard-hitting and utterly readable as Adichie does. Not “if only.” Not “as long as.” I matter equally. Your feminist premise should be: I matter. Adichie divides her time between the United States and Nigeria. Her most recent book, Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, was published in March 2017.Ī recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, Ms. Her 2012 talk We Should All Be Feminists has a started a worldwide conversation about feminism, and was published as a book in 2014. Her 2009 TED Talk, The Danger of A Single Story, is now one of the most-viewed TED Talks of all time. Adichie has been invited to speak around the world. Adichie is also the author of the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the Orange Prize and was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist and a New York Times Notable Book and Americanah, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named one of The New York Times Top Ten Best Books of 2013. Henry Prize Stories, the Financial Times, and Zoetrope. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages and has appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker, Granta, The O. It will start a new and urgently needed conversation about what it really means to be a woman today.Ĭhimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria. From encouraging her to choose a helicopter, and not only a doll, as a toy if she so desires having open conversations with her about clothes, makeup, and sexuality debunking the myth that women are somehow biologically arranged to be in the kitchen making dinner, and that men can 'allow' women to have full careers, Dear Ijeawele goes right to the heart of sexual politics in the twenty-first century.

Here are fifteen invaluable suggestions-compelling, direct, wryly funny, and perceptive-for how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman. Dear Ijeawele is Adichie's letter of response. From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today-written as a letter to a friend.Ī few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise her baby girl as a feminist.

Chimamanda dear ijeawele