Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lecture
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Enugu, Nigeria in 1977. She grew up on the campus of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where her father was a Professor and her mother was the first female Registrar.
She studied medicine for a year at Nsukka and then left for the US at the age of 19 to continue her education on a different path.
She graduated summa cum laude from Eastern Connecticut State University with a degree in Communication and Political Science.
She has a Master’s Degree in African Studies from Yale University, and a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins University. She was awarded a Hodder fellowship at Princeton University for the 2005-2006 academic year, and a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute of Harvard University for the 2011-2012 academic year. In 2008, she received a MacArthur Fellowship, popularly known as the “genius grant.”
She has received honorary doctorate degrees from Eastern Connecticut State University, Johns Hopkins University, Haverford College, Williams College, the University of Edinburgh, Duke University, Amherst College, Bowdoin College, SOAS University of London, American University, Georgetown University, Yale University, Rhode Island School of Design, Northwestern University, and University of Pennsylvania.
Ms. Adichie’s work has been translated into over thirty languages.
Her first novel, Purple Hibiscus (2003), won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and her second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), won the Orange Prize. Her 2013 novel Americanah won the US National Book Critics Circle Award, and was named one of The New York Times Top Ten Best Books of 2013. A story from her collection, The Thing Around Your Neck, was awarded the O Henry Prize.
She has delivered two landmark TED talks: her 2009 TED Talk The Danger of A Single Story and her 2012 TEDx Euston talk We Should All Be Feminists, which started a worldwide conversation about feminism, and was published as a book in 2014.
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, was published in March 2017.
Her most recent work, Notes On Grief, an essay about losing her father, was published in 2021.
She was named one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2015. In 2017, Fortune Magazine named her one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders. She is a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Ms. Adichie divides her time between the United States and Nigeria, where she leads an annual creative writing workshop.
She's The Pride of Africa! We appreciate you Chimamanda💖💯
Chimamanda always has a way of getting her audience and listening captivated; she drives her messages forcefully and clearly in a subtle manner.
There's no better way to spend my time than listennin to such a human marvel👏🏾
Chimamanda's voice is eloquently resounding as it is reassuring
The more I watch her, the more I get inspired.
I can listen to this woman all day, such a phenomenal and inspiring woman!
I have always looked for opportunity to attend lectures like this
God please gift me a girlchild 🙏.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie will be her role model for life. I love her❤
Listening to you while getting ready for an important meeting today. Let my chi and the chi of Chimamanda protect me this morning 🙏
I can listen to woman all day. Her voice is even more resounding than her writings.
Yes! Books are always more interesting than it's movies ......I enjoyed reading the book "half of a yellow sun" than it's movie.....i think the movie tries to condition one's mind to setting character but books makes the fantasy go wild.
Am not tire listening to her over and over again.
I get always captivated and inspired each time I listened to amazingly graceful stories.
Lots of motivations, my Chi (my God-Creator) never fails.
More grace and God's protections🙏❤
I totally loved the conversation. She's obviously polished and captivating.
Always love listening to Chimamanda ❤
Chimamanda is always inspiring and soothing to listen to.
Chief Odeluwa 1 nke Aba.🎉❤🎉😊❤🎉🎉❤
Adichie is a goddess.
Chimanda, you speak so well. You are so captivating . I have made you my role model.
Sometimes, we as people are too busy looking down that we forget to look up and see the Stars; to see the light that they are giving us , that , even though in darkness, we may see light. There she is, one of my favorite stars: Chimamanda💜🌟,,, Shining her light on the dark parts of our minds
Yesterday, I decided to unbusy myself today. And voila, the algorithm suggested her speech in Germany. Finished with that, I choose this one.
From St. Lucia in the Caribbean i can relate. We were not taught in our mother language patios. English only and when i listen to stories from my elders they were not allowed to speak creole. I am improving on my creole now however i mix it quite a bit at times with the the english. You have really brought that emotional feeling within me and i clearly see what you have said. From now on when i look at my elders converse the ones who never went to school, i realize our colonizers stripped away a part of us our beautiful language.
She's a wonderful gift to the African people.
I love watching chimamanda Ngozi adichie.
This is so similar I grew up on a campus. University of Lagos to be precise.
I totally can relate with the University of Nigeria Nsukka because I am a super lioness. That varsity was my alma mater. ❤❤❤
Odeluwa. An inspiration
Listening to Chimamanda is always inspiring n soothing❤.
She is also one the most beautiful woman in the world . Our Catholica names had very little to do with English . It iwa s being dedicated to a saint in the Catholic Church as a Christian identification . That was amazing
Odeluwa 🔥
❤❤❤love her so much admire her pride and determination courage
Always get inspired listening to you Chimamanda.🎉
I love this woman!
I never get tired of listening to her
She really beautifuly brilliantly spoke very well👌
My sister, with whom I am well-pleased. You made me a better reader, writer, and listener. Kaa nka na ahụ ike na obiọma: Isee 🙏!
How can improve my English through Her Chimmamanda Ngozi
@dollarmakana4969 Get some of her books, and begin to read them. Have your dictionary with you to check strange words. Sometimes, watch her speeches on RUclips. And gradually you will get there
Beautiful.
This chimamanda is irreparable ❤❤❤❤❤
Love love love this!!!
Story telling per excellence. I love this woman
Love Chimamanda. I can relate to her.
I love the thoughts expressed in this discuss; the topic, the questions asked, everything. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
We love you CHIMAMANDA ❤❤❤
I love how she says it without saying it. The Samuel Beckett comparison is powerful.
An excellent lady, always.
İ wish i couldn't understand English to listen to her voice. She has a nice rhythm like places that remind me of home.
I experienced what she is talking about in that same catholic on the UNN campus. Those men who checked the ladies' dressing were called JPDC. It was honestly terrifying for me too.
Also, when my parents passed, Catholic Church in my hometown, Awka, Anambra state, Nigeria did this heavy levying. They ended up not burying my father because they claimed it was passed 3 months after his demise, even as we had already buried him and only wanted the funeral rites done.
Leave, the claim that they're universal is only in celebration of masses and money generation.
Ada Nne well done, God bless you plenty
I love you so much ma, I so much covet the you speak ma.
This has been a very wonderful and insightful lecture. loved the questions. I'm looking forward to more lectures like this.
From Nigeria.
Skip Intro?? 9:06 Welcome
Brilliant!!!
She is an inspiration
Moderator did a lot of talking himself.
I thought I was the only having the same thought. At some point I was like can you keep quiet?
I love you Ngozi
You always bring excellence!
❤❤❤Odeluwa
Sending to Chimamanda ❤❤❤❤
Chimamanda is the best
Odelụ Ụwa jisike 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Genius
Never been more glad to be spatially challenged 😂😂
I mean CNA is too! 😌🤭
Chimqmanda is that WOMAN
Pls, how can I gain admission into this prestigious varsity through scholarship?
This lady is super intelligent
❤❤❤
The interviewer shouldn't have invited Adichie if he knew all. He spoke too much!
How was he allowed to keep a hat on his head ?
The moderator did not allow her to exhaust her points on her stand on Christianity
8:41 ❤❤❤
But Purple Hibiscus was political. The plot is built around politics. I saw the father's character as representative of a prevalent hypocrisy (social and political) that is very much alive in African societies. The colonial effect is inescapable in that book!
The Catholic Church in Cameroon doesn't issue those levies.
She's right about Peter Obi. I was fortunate to meet him in London last year. Very humble man!
Who else is cared for this man? the interviewer. He tries an awful lot to sound brilliant. I find his speech so uninteresting. And he's quite slow in the rendition. Don't get me wrong, he might actually deserve his honors, but honestly he shouldn't host stuff like this. More so, he's questions are too long and end up badly put.
I felt outrage that he believed he had a better story about Achebe than Adichie's. Chimamanda proved to be far emotionally intelligent than he could ever dream.
While appreciating your true talent and unrelenting effort to always tells the world about Africa and Nigeria in particular. But one thing I'm still battling to convince myself about you is your stereotype attitude of marginalising Nigeria as a nation of only Christian Igbos, most, if not all of your stories about Nigeria centered on Christian Igbos, a community which is indeed a minor Nigerian community and not a true reflection of Nigeria as a whole.
You are a terrible being. Go and tell your own stories
I'm not sure how I feel about her since those transphobic comments
0
So many trivialities and self-centered statements, how uninteresting this is. How can one say that 'men read books by men'? What about Agatha Christie and J.K. Rowling in the Anglo-Saxon world? How can one make such statements without embarrassing themselves? What a lack of cultural awareness! A bit of research would have revealed to her that, at the time, many people were interested in understanding what led to Samuel Beckett's decision to settle permanently in Paris. This was mainly due to his falling out with his mother. Then, Beckett chose to remain in Paris following the outbreak of World War II in 1939, expressing a preference (because he was asked), in his own words, for 'France at war' over 'Ireland at peace'. All of this speech is so shallow and self-centered. Everything in this speech is focused on me, myself, and me again.
If you disagree with her, write your own story, publish your own books and earn a world wide platform to correct the things you referred to as shallow in her address. I seriously doubt if you can achieve all that. Great minds don't pull successful people down, only career jealous filled minds do that and I believe without even knowing who you are and I don't even want to know you, belong to the latter class.
I wonder how all you took away from her lecture was I, me and myself despite the effort you made to sound intelligent by your comment. How much does the west know about Africa? How deeply do the west care about a place they call the dark continent? Personal stories as examples in a lecture or an address resonate across the world all the time; if they can find a resemblance or similarity with other people's stories no matter how remotely connected by experience or knowledge.
If you were intelligent, you would know that the theme, the topic or the subject of an address suggests the kind of narrative that constitutes the speaker's body talk. Did you come expecting her to talk about fashion, cuisine , astrology and astronomy?
I too sabi dey worry you as we say in Nigerian pidgin english.
@@Train-mo2rj You took the words right out of my mouth. Thank you! I really want to know how he came to that after this lecture
Lol. This must be the second or third time I would come across your nonsense in different videos of Chimamanda. Looks like you are a troll. Get yourself a job and make a better use of your time.
@olivier Which culture??? Yours? You're the embarrassment. All these lectures are meant to be personal. These are not meant to be didactic lectures. Did you even listen to the introduction?
These are the kind of arguments she would love to get in and in the manner in which you handled this misinterpretation makes me smile