i've been looking for a copy of 'Half of a Yellow Sun' for the past year, and today i finally found it in the local used book store. my favourite of #ChimamandaNgoziAdichie 's books.

'Once, [Jomo] shot a bush pigeon down from the cashew tree with a small stone, wrapped it in leaves, and put it into his bag. "Don't go to that bag unless I am around," he told Ugwu. "You might find a human head there." Ugwu laughed but had not entirely doubted Jomo.'

#books #bookstodon

tonight's read: Ifemelu's in-universe blog, from #ChimamandaNgoziAdichie 's 'Americanah' (2013)

'I bought a dress from a vintage shop on eBay the other day, made in 1960. ...[M]aybe the original owner was one of those women, in the famous sepia photographs, standing by in hordes outside schools shouting "Ape!" at young black children because they did not want them to go to school with their young white children. Where are those women now? Do they sleep well? Do they think about shouting "Ape"?'

Interessante perceber, nesse ponto do livro, página 224 da versão para o Kindle, que a Chimamanda parece querer jogar com o emocional e a psiquê do leitor...
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Me lembra daquela questão da relação entre pais e filhos, onde existe o abuso do cuidador. A criança nunca deixa de amar pai ou mãe, ela deixa de se amar... E isso é muito triste, mas real!
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#ChimamandaNgoziAdichie
#HibiscoRoxo
#Leitura&Literatura
#Livros

20 of the best feminist books that should be required reading https://www.russh.com/best-feminist-books/ #ChimamandaNgoziAdichie #AileenMoretonRobinson #VirginiaWoolf #SylviaPlath #RoxaneGay #BookClub #Culture

La race n'est pas de la biologie ; la race est de la sociologie. La race n'est pas un génotype ; la race est un phénotype. La race compte à cause du racisme. Et le racisme est absurde parce qu'il concerne uniquement l'apparence. Pas le sang qui coule dans vos veines.

#ChimamandaNgoziAdichie / Americanah (2014)

tonight's listen: #ChimamandaNgoziAdichie 's speech at the PEN centenary symposium: wherein she talks about the power of words, the attack on Salman Rushdie, and how the freedom to write is an essential corollary of the freedom to read. she speaks from the perspective of a Nigerian-American and discusses the 'American* addiction to comfort' as a stifling force, & what is lost when the priority of discourse shifts to comfort instead of truth-telling.

https://youtu.be/7kxro7j5z5Q

daily VW: this time not #VirginiaWoolf herself but #ChimamandaNgoziAdichie 's riff on Mrs Dalloway, 'The Arrangements,' imagined as a day in the life of Melania Trump. i spied this bilingual short story collection at the local thrift store & couldn't snatch it off the shelf fast enough.

i get a little thrill of recognition in hearing a bit of Virginia's voice in writers as different as Adichie, Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, & no doubt countless others. briefly her ghost flits into the room.

My takeaway from #chimamandangoziadichie ‘s talk was this “The single story creates #stereotypes and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.”
So simple yet so complete! Single stories result in fixed assumptions and conclusions. We need to know that there aren’t single stories, that single stories cut us off from the reality, or at least they portray the partial images.

https://youtu.be/D9Ihs241zeg

new book day: 'Notes on Grief' by #ChimamandaNgoziAdichie (2021). wherein she describes the aftermath of her father's death, in scenes that remind me of the better episodes of Six Feet Under--

'My four-year-old daughter says I scared her. She gets down on her knees to demonstrate, her small clenched fist rising and falling, and her mimicry makes me see myself as I was: utterly unraveling, screaming and pounding the floor.'

#books #bookstadon #reading #writing

idk why people act like #literature appreciation is an elitist hobby when these books are really just the cheapest ones you can find at any thrift store, and their only barrier to entry is the sort of education you can get in a Canadian public high school

(all of these books cost me less than $5 each at the local thrift store)

#books #reading #writing

#SalmanRushdie #EsiEdugyan #ChimamandaNgoziAdichie #OscarWilde #LewisCarroll #WilliamBlake #MargaretLaurence

https://t.co/w9R0OFPko5 2022 #ReithLecturers discuss together what FDR's 4 Freedoms mean now. @tweeter_anita Anand+ #ChimamandaNgoziAdichie, former Archbishop of Canterbury #RowanWilliams: writer+campaigner @lokiscottishrap+foreign affairs expert #FionaHill.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001fmtz?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
Finding myself nodding along to and cheering #ChimamandaNgoziAdichie's #ReithLecture on social censure and #FreedomofSpeech. So interesting re cancel culture, silence, creativity and the English curriculum.

A nigeriana #ChimamandaNgoziAdichie estava na minha lista "a ler" há anos, desde que vi a sua inspirada TED talk (https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story), finalmente aconteceu e que leitura. #Americanah é um #livro espetacular, a estória de migração de uma jovem da #Nigéria para os EUA, eu gosto muito do género migração ("Emigrantes" de #FerreiradeCastro ou "Brooklyn" de #ColmTóibín são comparações que ocorrem), mas é também uma estória de emancipação e retorno. 5/5

Wise #chimamandangoziadichie opens The Reith Lectures this year.

If you're interested in understanding freedom of speech and how its been weaponized through social media companies and their platforms (performative spaces) and representation of the debate by formerly respectable "newspapers" and "tv news broadcasts", then this is your hour of enlightenment (whether you agree or not with her). https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001fmtz

Fits with this 2018 piece by n+1 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-32/the-intellectual-situation/the-new-reading-environment/

"If you don't understand, ask questions. If you're uncomfortable about asking questions, say you are uncomfortable about asking questions and then ask anyway." — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie — — — #ChimamandaNgoziAdichie #quote #quotes #question #understand

@cassandrahouseofpriam a great on-point and thought-provoking lecture from the awesome #chimamandangoziadichie , thanks for sharing.📚

Have only read #HalfOfAYellowSun to date, but will be correcting that very soon!

“While social media has reshaped the traditional power dynamic by giving some access to the powerless, it has also made it very easy to mistake the loudest voices for the truest.”
ChimamandaNgoziAdichie: first BBC Reith Lecture 2022 - “Freedom of Speech.”
Wise words from an impressive speech - heartfelt, balanced, witty, thought-provoking. But, listen for yourselves.
#ChimamandaNgoziAdichie. #BBCSoundsApp. #BBCRadio4
#ReithLectures. #FreedomOfSpeech

Excellent #ReithLecture on #FreedomOfSpeech by #ChimamandaNgoziAdichie. Great that people like #Chimamanda are retrieving this issue from 'free-speech warriors' on the Right but also a lesson for those on the Left tempted into #tribal self-censorship.

Here is the recording: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001fmtz​

Here is the transcript: https://downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2022/Reith_2022_Lecture1.pdf​

Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has said she worries society is suffering from an "epidemic of self-censorship"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-63797087

#chimamandangoziadichie #cancelculture #literature #selfcensorship

Author #chimamandangoziadichie said she worries society is suffering from an "epidemic of self-#censorship".
In #bbc #reith lecture on #freedom of #speech, (30.11.22 #bbcradio4 #BBCSounds) she said young people were growing up "afraid to ask questions for fear of asking the wrong questions".
Such a climate cld lead to "the death of curiosity, the death of learning+the death of creativity", award-winning #nigerian #author warned.
"No human endeavour requires #freedom as much as #creativity does”