Arlington Reads: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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- čas přidán 18. 05. 2015
- On hand May 7 to discuss her novel “Americanah,” the featured fiction title of Arlington Reads 2015, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie drew hundreds of passionate readers to the Arlington (VA) Public Library. Working from the timely Arlington Reads theme of “#BlackLivesMatter,” Ms. Adichie reflected on her life coming to America, her writing process and issues of race, gender and mental health. But perhaps her most personal statement came at the beginning of the program when she told the audience of the fresh trauma of her father’s kidnapping just days earlier in Nigeria. He was freed unharmed on May 5.
The energy coming from the large Arlington Reads audience clearly provided comfort to Ms. Adichie, who graciously concluded the evening with autographs for every person who sought one. Library Director Diane Kresh summed up the appearance as “inspiring, generous, thoughtful. Just the kind of program that touches our hearts and our heads.”
Arlington Reads is made possible by the Friends of the Arlington Public Library. - Věda a technologie
Chimamanda has proved herself as a great writer loved by many including me
I love this woman . She is so beautiful and so her voice very pleasing: I also love her realness and simplicity.❤❤❤
Chimamanda is so real...she represents everything in a complete real woman...
She is smart,wonderful,and beatiful. I hope she become A great leader of A great country one day and save the world from falling
@@odellduncan7992 being that kind of leader is so difficult - perhaps it's better if she just continues to greatly inspire others...
I started having depression when my mom died! I overcome it through my faith. I believed she's in heaven and I need to work to make her proud while on Earth. That's how I healed.
this woman is brilliant, witty and really just communicates so... emotively that it really just amazes me
Greater writer and a fluid speaker that has an ability to simplify difficult questions of our societal challenges: gender, equality, politics, love, humanity. She is like that sister you want to have and hang on her advice.
while I ever be this calm and talk calmly😭😭 I love
She's a gift to the world! Excellent! Congratulations chimamanda!
I love her I love her I love her I love her I love her. That's all I can say. She's a gift ✨💕
She is one of my role model
Love her so much
@@amarachijacintaokoli891 😢Amandas speech is highly encouraging and patriotic .
I love her more!! So much much more!
Repeating this segment, again!😭😢
My prayers are with you, Ms. Adichie.
Shes a very strong speaker, I must say. Just watched many other of her speeches, shes a very strong woman.
There's so much wisdom when Chimamanda speaks✨
Her husband is the light-skinned black guy sitting next to the lady asking a questions. He's holding Adichie's purse, while filming with a phone at 56:56 . He's actually a Physician! lol.
+Blackwiz thanks
Lovely
Day by day iam falling in love with the speechs of Chimamanda Ngozi
Lord knows how much i love this woman
I love her too, she is a great gift to humanity, to women and specially to African women.
She is SO beautiful. I think she is the most beautiful lady I have ever seen.
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because say she sabi book
I think you are right!
Everything about her is stunningly beautiful, her mind, her hair, her skin, her voice and the way she carries herself
@@judehans3609 go back school so you can learn how to write
Chimamanda is my future! she is all i need. Totally inspired in all dimensions..
i'm in love with her, with her calmness.
I finished it I love dis woman sooooooo much
We need more talks by Ms Adichie so I can stop re-listening all over you tube 😊
Just love her!
something about this lady Chiimamanda, she kinda pulls you in some sort of way.
great personality indeed.
Oh my ... What a beautiful person... real star, real fans
Beautiful African Queen 👸🏽
Thank you for making us proud♥️🌹
Thank You God for rewarding ALL her hard work🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
I am so delighted to listen to your speeches .lam so proud of you my Nigerian sister. You have projected the image of Africans positively. How do l get my children to join your reading club? You are such an intelligent person l appreciate your contribution to the world 🌎
Have recently started listening to you and I'm in awe of your work. I'm inspired
That is something people don't understand , creative people create because that is who they are and they would still do what they do without financial gain or recognition.
I need to find a woman who thinks like her for my future children. She's so confident and intelligent
My God,I love the oral narrative storytelling way she fluidly embarks on this reading.
A strong powerful woman.
Of massive perspicacity.
I am enjoying reading Americannah,at chapter 10.
she is brilliant i really like her so much
This is happening to a lot of Nigerians. One of my uncle went through this as well. He was boarding a plane last month travelling to Minneapolis when he received a call that her mother was kidnapped, they asked him for a huge amount of money, few days later she was free. They are targeting people they think are rich, kidnap their family member to make money. So sad..
I am impressed that we have people like Chimamanda who has gotten to the peak of her career and also fly the flag of Nigerian prominence to the World to see. That is what Nigerians have been known for over the years and not the other way round ie corruption, kidnapping and terrorism. Kudos to you Ma.
just listening to you i wish i had all female children and all as graced as you are ... love you Chimamanda!
I really love her take on religion and it's turn in Nigeria. Things should change.
She will make too many enemies. Though, it shouldn't matter
What a nice crowd they are!!!
Is it possible to like three tymes ....i love her,i love her ,i love her. A very cool lady .
I love her style. Green shoes are to die for
she's amazing!
Poor girl. So courageous. Awful with her father being kidnapped.
Chimamanda , an incredible person. A real star.
Regards to the Nigerian, Ghanaian woman's comment on inheritance in Ghana. I want to put it right for the record that, Just as many tribes in various countries in Africa, Ghana has many tribes and their pattern of inheritance. In Ghana, only the Akans practice the matrilineal line of inheritance. Thanks
wonderfully spoken!
I love this intelligent woman she's extremely lucky to have had the parents and family she has.
JESUS. I love her mind
I love everything @ her❤
NICE - Her Husband is in the audience!
Thank you, no matter move forward
She is the best I love her
Americanah realmente tocó en el fondo de mi corazón, me vi muchas veces identificada en la definición y re-enforzamiento de mi identidad y experimentando la añoranza del lugar en donde nací y crecí. Viviendo fuera de México mi identidad como latina creció, siempre he sentido un profundo amor y respeto a mi México, pero está vez creció mi amor por Latinoamerica, bien extendida desde México a todo el continente Americano.
Además, estoy de acuerdo, el amor importa.
I respect this lady all along I never listened to her ,thank God I tried today
I like the audience, so receptive!!!
Adichie is a great soul
Yes I love her above the moon
Thank you much
''Exclusive preserve of female''... how can it not be.. wow! She is beautiful.. really fine chic!
Beautiful names
I love you so much darling,more grace
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We thank you to tel others
Big name ❤❤❤
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powerful ending
The terrorists don't care about dignity! They're evil! It's pathetic!! Keep up your head up.
Leadership!
An intellectual
I'm attracted to her knowledge!
Hello Chimamada, plz a sweet person like you can not be suffering from depression. Thank God you are a Catholic. Just pray twenty decades of rosary every day and your depression will be a thing of the past. Shalom.
That's good
I don't agree with you totally on your explanation of the meaning of Chimamanda. I am an Igbo and i think the real meaning is, MY god will not fail me. thanks
Chịm and chi usually differ, though slightly, in Igbo cosmology. Hers is personal chi not the universal chukwu.
Exactly that is what it means. Most of names starts with God and ends with its attributes or character. My name is Chukwuemeka. Chi and chukwu points to the universal God and our ancestors attached the character of God to our names. Ngozichukwuka means God's blessing is the greatest
"Dangling organ?" That's much an insulting description for men! No doubt the men in there ain't talking.
What is the author’s overall message.
Qandeel Zahara “everyone should stand for truth and justice, not against it.”
She steals books from fans lmao
Third suggestion
English lesson of urs
The woman who said Ghanaians practice the matrilineal system of belonging is misleading. Ghana is made up of different ethnic groups. Akans practice that system but Ewes, for example, practice the patrilineal system.
You start and you’re stuck😊, it’s called ‘writer’s block’, how is it no one has an inkling that that’s the terminology.
Authority is an art and miss Adiche is a unique character who take s on man forms as an author.
can anybody let me know why this novel is entitled americanah???
its a term used to describe african to come to America and become "Americanized".
have you read the book? if you do, you will understand why :)
This is what attracts white people! See how crowded they're here😃😃😄
I can't read Harry Potter etc... it's demonic!
I'm looking for sugar mamy from America