![]() ![]() “I could tell from his tone-the same tone with which a person would say, ‘You’re a supporter of terrorism.’”Īt the time, Adichie didn’t even know what the word meant. She tells the story of her childhood friend, Oklahoma, who was the first one to say to her, in the heat of an argument when they were 14 years old, “You know, you’re a feminist.” “It was not a compliment,” Adichie recalls. ![]() ( click here to watch her TED talk)Īdichie acknowledges that the word “feminist” is a loaded word, a word that carries a lot of baggage for many. Adichie is a Nigerian award-winning novelist, and this little book is actually based on a talk she delivered in December 2012 at TED圎uston, an annual conference focused on Africa. student at Wheaton, gave me a compelling little book titled We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. This past Christmas my sister-in-law, an ordained minister in the RCA and a Ph.D. ![]()
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