The man believed that whatever money I had ultimately came from Louis. When the worker thanks Louis instead of Adichie, he “…looked at me, surprised, and asked, ‘Why is he thanking me? I didn’t give him the money.’ Then I saw realisation dawn on Louis’s face. Maybe it was so in the past, but not now. Louis is “…a brilliant, progressive man… would tell me, ‘I don’t see what you mean by things being different and harder for women. One instance is when she tips a parking assistant for finding her and her male companion, Louis, a spot to park, and he turns to the man and thanks him, instead of Adichie. She begins to push this point by drawing from certain experiences she has had where she has been treated as lesser than a man. The main argument is that everyone should be a feminist. Readers are able to connect with the text because Adichie draws from her own life experiences and things that she has been told. This makes the book much easier to read, and much more personable. The text in this book is largely personal, with no backing texts from other sources. The book was published in 2014 by Fourth Estate. She has converted that speech into the book, We Should All Be Feminists.
Adiche spoke at a TED圎uston talk in December 2012, where she gave a speech on feminism. She grew up in Nigeria and is from the Igbo people. Look out for new purchases in Feminism recommended by Emma coming soon!Ĭhimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian feminist.
The book is available to borrow in the Feminism section of the RACE Centre library under call number GE.1/ADI. In the third guest blog from our MA placement students, Emma Allen reviews Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s We Should All Be Feminists.
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