Thinking Activity Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

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   Today I am going to discuss about Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and her works. So this task given by our professor followe this task.

Introduction :

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 Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins University and a Master of Arts degree in African History from Yale 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. 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, and Northwestern University.

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. 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, has just been published. 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.

1. Did the first talk help you in understanding of postcolonialism?

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Says in TED video The Danger of single story. And he srat this session and her speak this line..... I'm a storyteller. And I would like to tell you a few personal stories about what I like to call "the danger of the single story." I grew up on a university campus in eastern Nigeria. My mother says that I started reading at the age of two, although I think four is probably close to the truth. So I was an early reader, and what I read were British and American children's books.she tells a many short deferent story but this story is incompeted and very dangerous. 

 So, The Danger of a Single Story" is really dangerous and terrible for a person to know only single story about culture, people, country, things, places etc. Most of the people have a single point of view for such things and they considered it as true and highest. So the possibility of misunderstanding grow from the single story. Adichie give very interesting examples from her own life..Like during childhood she has single story for British-American literature. Then she had a single story for Fide's family and at U.S. Her roommate had.a single story for African people. Her roommate became shocked by the English speech of Adichie because American people think that no one can stand near to their position. Adichie said that how we are treated from childhood to see things only from single visions while there multidimensional way to see the real world. These things are deeply carved on our mind too use only one perspective to look at the world. 

2. Are the arguments in the seconds talk convincing?

In this video she  mentioned her own experiences. And she give to  feminine definition her own words.she Say's.she was a schools time at that time her get to highest score. So her become a monitor but sir Say's only for boys become a monitor so second position of boys and he become a monitor in my class. "We Should All Be Feminists is a personal, eloquently-argued essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah". Here Adichie offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness. Drawing extensively on her own experiences and her deep understanding of the often-masked realities of sexual politics, here is one remarkable author’s exploration of what it means to be a woman now—and an of-the-moment rallying cry for why we should all be feminists.

3. What did you like about the third talk?

In this  video I would  like the views of Adichie and I truly appreciate her perspective analysis of Post truth. This is a must watch video. She observes that generally, people in the twenty first century has a lot of things around them to get confused or rather to believe in it so easily that sometimes, it may happen that the information they carry may be not pure or correct. So, from the whole broken glass, truth is like the mini pieces of that glass, it doesn't corry the whole potential to be a sole and complete entity but it's a collect I tire and life?

4. Are these talks bringing any significant change in your way of looking at literature and life?

 yes, these talks bringing significant change in my  way of looking at literature and after reading and listening to Chimamanda I can understand that whatever is happening near us is also literature.Literature has broad sense we can get from anything like watching and reading both are necessary for a Literature. We can see the world in larger picture instead looking from only one perspective.

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