Tag: Chimamanda Adichie

A young female is unsuccessful without a man in Nigeria?

[ad#GBAF-1-text] Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie “…I am infuriated by the assumption that to be youngish and female means you are unable to earn your own living without a man” – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie A humid night two years ago, sitting beside a male friend in his car, and I roll down my window to tip a… Continue reading A young female is unsuccessful without a man in Nigeria?

Freedom, Opportunity and Tolerance

Sitting at less than five metres from the former President of Ghana, John Kufuor, I listened to what turned out to be one of my favourite public lectures in my adult life. The venue was the Rhodes House in Oxford. President Kufuor was still in power then. Three words summarised his incisive paper: freedom, opportunity… Continue reading Freedom, Opportunity and Tolerance

The Black woman’s new look

"Naked woman, black woman. Dressed in your color that is life, in your form that is beauty!", reads the famous line from Leopold Senghor’s Femme Noire. And yet, day in day out, the man regarded as one of the most revered African intellectuals of the last century is ridiculed down to his toe nails. Natural… Continue reading The Black woman’s new look