America Is Starting To Crumble | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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- Nigerian writer and freedom of speech activist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie says America as a nation is crumbling. Free speech is being stifled and self-censorship is the order of the day. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie says she does not understand America's fascination with Donald Trump. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie contends that intellectual discourse is being muffled. It is a pity that children are not being taught the beautiful stories of Black Americans, she laments.
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No World Power remains forever. Every World Power has it time limit and The Anglo-America World Power will not be an exception.
Self evident
Sad, but true.
America is young, the best empires lasted millennia! The US still on it’s way up
That maybe true, but the American empire will crumble by its own doings. Stupid policies that brings short term gaun to politicians but long term consequences for the country.
Well said
A gifted Nigerian writer...one of the best 🧐
What a beautiful and intelligent woman! Great job Sis!
This woman is very well spoken, eloquent, classy and intelligent
And wrong.
@@fromthewrath2come whatever
A patient once asked me where I went to nursing school and when I said Nigeria, she was shocked that we had schools in Africa. I had to educate that Africa is a continent and Nigeria is one of its countries and that we had schools all over. They are million times ignorant than you think. But it’s getting better because of social media
She is absolutely correct. I should be able to decide for myself without persecution from my tribe. Have the courage to go outside of the 📦 box.
She is telling the truth. America is crumbling because a house divided cannot stand.
Many of the commenters here are guilty of reading just the title and not listening to the full context.
Thank you, my sister, for those wonderful words of truth and wisdom. (Vnon Kwinn Kenonso) Palm Beach Fl./Boston MA.)
Always worth listening to, she nails it everytime. She has so much to say and says it with such grace and power.
I love this woman so much. Even when she is criticizing something or someone she takes care to not alienate them or be offensive. It’s so hard to do well and she makes it look easy.
I really wish we would have more of her voice in our society.
To control a people you must first control what they think about themselves and how they regard their history and culture..And when your conqueror makes you ashamed of your culture and history, he needs no prison walls and no chains to hold you… John Henrik Clarke
My disappointment is global. We are crumbling indeed.
I love Chimamanda 😍❤️💖
Goes both ways. My African co worker saw some young boys hanging out asked, "is that a gang?" 🤣
Sister to understand the real spirit of WASP America, study the teachings of Dr John Henrik Clarke, Dr Fracis Cress Welsing, Dr Claud Anderson and Dr Umar Ifatunde. We are part of Afrikan Exceptionality among a people who doesn't have our interest at heart! How do we heal trauma while we are still among trauma?
Just reading comments let’s you know people are so addicted to their opinions and programmed to think someone else’s opinion is attacking them personally. It’s sad. I don’t think America is about to collapse. But I know love and empathy for our fellow man is. That should always come first. The meaning of life is people. All people. Not just those that make you feel comfortable. Agendas change over time. The meaning of life for us has never changed. For our 200000 plus years on this planet. Love people. We all we got✌🏽
When you build a nation on lies and off the backs of others, eventually that illusion of greatness will crumble
YESSSSSSS! TRUTH!!!
As an African living in the UK, that's the kind of ignorance I also had to deal with. This is from both Black and White British people. There was this guy that was suprised when he found out we have Universities in Nigeria. Most people generally don't read and know very little to nothing about World history.
Watch this czcams.com/video/4amKKUmXNkI/video.html
We made this video in 2018! From what we have seen/heard since then, we could be making a variation of the same video every year!
All I can say to the African nations, " watch your back ,read the fine print, understand the history of your intended partnerships 😮. Don't go from one devil 👿 to a possible even bigger one. Be blessed ❤
It is not just the west. Everywhere Great Britans touched is unraveling.
She is the new Chomsky. A black woman at that! People pay to hear her speak. Big up for the black sista.
The whole world is in big turmoil...economic, political, cultural and spiritual crisis..Confusion and chaos...mankind failing miserably in every aspect of life. For those of us who see the problem in a spiritual angle, God is preparing the whole world for a judgment because the cup of His wrath is full..Whoever has ears let him hear..
Africa the future super power 🙏👌
The "one-sided coverage of Mexicans" and other nations that she alludes to also applies to Western media coverage of China, Palestine, Syria and Russia
Sigh! Interesting submission
And Cuba. Americans are very insular. The primary and secondary schools don’t teach about other people, other cultures or any real history. It’s all American exceptionalism, manifest destiny and such. Even immigrants come here believing it of us so of course when reality comes into view, when the fact that a country that has not grappled with its own slave past cannot really bond with foreigners either. Disillusionment clouds the vision and the possibilities. These things contribute to the insularity as well. The comments on here reveal so little knowledge of Africa, even the current state of poverty and war are connected to the Europeans invasions and experiments on the continent where mankind originated. I’m with her on the left because the right doesn’t want people like me! Fine. Our best way to go anywhere globally is to educate from birth yo the grave, and make sure all peoples basic needs are met. She is right about not assuming the worst about people. At the same time, intelligent people can withstand hurt feelings. Lies may console and control but they’re useless in the end because a liar will steal and a thief will kill. Truth may hurt but it doesn’t kill.
Look at the audience faces that are uncomfortable with the truth...
God bless you, Chimamanda. I thought as much or rather, it's so obvious that America is fast falling from grace to grass.
Truth to power always painful to admit😎
...and to accept.
Africa If the US is still influencing your country YOUR country is in trouble. America no longer have good music, good movie stars (all those people are DEAD), good politician's or even a system of government that is functioning (constant fighting by politicians who are bought out by special interest where nothing gets done). Race problems (especially when it comes to Blacks), their economy of capitalism constantly sell out their people and send their jobs to other countries. It has massive wealth gap between the Rich and the Poor. It pushes the ungodly LGBT movement, It is a mess and getting worst.
The respect, love and appreciation I have for this woman is indescribable. ❤😍🤗
I will asvise all Africans to think Africa first Charity begins from your root.We need solidarity to call our leaders to order or change them for the future of our children. Enough is just enough.
So good, thank you for sharing this
She's definitely right at this point 1:50 to 2:12. It was exactly what I was discussing with my friend. This political ideology create a framework for thought that people use without knowing it.
It's a design feature of social media to create and heighten conflict. The algorithms respond more to conflict because emotional subscribers spend more time on social media.
Profound insights 🙌🏾
Things fall apart
...depriving children of knowledge and pleasure.... wow
Amazing
Exactly, what does she mean by that? What’s her book about ?
I respect your opinion and understand your frustrations. However, every country in the world has it own domestic challenges. We in Africa, we have tribalism, sectionalism, favoritism, nepotism, curruption, and so on. Let is focus on the postives that unites us and atack the challenges we have in Africa and make it better for us and generations yet unborn.
She’s not only talking about America 🇺🇸 it’s a general thing and using America as example.
So, dont you know, dont worry you will be reminded, No empire lasts forever
Time changes everything.
Word.
I just love her, really. It is too bad that those corporations don't allow people like her to lead, as they were meant to. Money takes the right people out of leadership. The ignorance of Musk and Bezos and those like them take the right people out of leadership. She is here, and she has a following but she should be so much more prevalent. The powerful keep us separate so that they can separately take our money and rights. Even Africans and African Americans they try to keep us from loving each other. I love all of the African Diaspora. I love all griots. The teach us and they love us. They are not only from Africa, but from all over the world.
Bravo! Well said!❤
I can't believe this bright young woman author thought writing a letter to the US government on behalf of Nigeria would hold merit. She may be a good writer but deeply asleep on the true nature of our current world.
However stay awake and aware my people. All Empires must fall before they can be rebuilt. 😢
Call me unaware, but what was her letter about? That was pretty naive, I wonder if her Preferred candidate had won, would there have been a letter?
You are beautiful!
i wonder what her opinion of Trump is now. One of the most important lessons i have learnt in recent times is "there is always more than what meets the eye" we sit on our benches, couches, or beds and pass judgement on certain matter with only surface knowledge of what it truly is and sadly time passes and we realise "oh shoot, I've missed out on so much"
Watch the video before you right a comment. She right!! 💯
Chimamanda is so eloquent. Maybe the challenge is her stand on things like lesibianism, abortion and the like. I think the stringent culture in Nigeria made her want to fight for what is fair. Fair isn't the thing. What is right is.
Facts FACTS FACTS! what is right is the most important thing. Like you said, many of these orators keep away from the homosexuality conversation knowing the repercussions.
Well you where in the position like lesbians, your existence where abominable as lesbians may seem to you. She understood the humanity of other and recognised history as one could be wrong about things.
I think she is an uneasy liberal, I not because the Conservative Party in the US is racist and sexist (at least more so).
Correct this format worldwide of w/s is crumbling and that's a positive for the survival of all other species 😢
I think America is sort of plateauing rather than crumbling. Also i think they will be fine though it wont feel fine to plateau while the rest of the world moves forward.
Since she is an expert at "African American" history, how much does Nigeria owe ADOS/FBA people for their role in slavery?
role
As a Nigerian myself, I've always asked same question.
Go trace your roots to the tribes that existed during that time and ask them for money 🤡
She did say that this place was her second home..what else u want always wanting to kill the messenger
"Nigeria" as a country did not have a role in slavery because it did not exist at that time. Back then Africa existed in tribes and kingdoms which do not necessarily align with countries (I.e., there was no tribe or kingdom called Nigeria. Nor did the tribes that make up Nigeria today exist in the same kingdom in the past) Nigeria as a country is a western construct officially formed by the British in 1914. There are tribes that would be part of modern day Nigeria that may have had a role in slavery. And there are tribes in modern day Nigeria that were enslaved. For example, I am from Nigeria. But my people, a smaller coastal tribe, were not enslavers but enslaved.
It’s all about greed corrupts
Yes! LITERATURE...TRUTHFUL LITERATURE IS DYING...IS DEAD
Im in Africa and don't follow American politics that much but the world was at peace with Trump, he is not perfect at all but i think things were way better
The world was at peace with Trump, you are kidding right?
@@jeffmason2691not at peace, but definetly much less at war.
@@musamusashi now it's getting worse
MAGA from Kenya❤
Trump doesn't want you here. Keep worshipping him, he loves ignorance.
*People Are on hair trigger alert!!!*
◾️ _From issue to issue, people are ready to embrace you as their angel _*_"from Heaven"_*_ when you agree with them, and then the very next minute, MURDER you as a demon from the _*_"pit of Hell"_*_ if you disagree with them!_
*I should know! ...we've all done it! ...and in our minds, we're all very good, well-meaning people! Of course!*
Always wondered whether Americans can be in the middle instead of right or left.
America is crumbling and so is democracy, so Africa should adopt dictatorship
Great interview,but very msleading title why???
Most of the countries in Mother Africa are still third world countries. When are we going to see first world, developed and modernized, countries in mother Africa?
Never will Africa be modernized and developed in the modern sense. Modern world is collapsing because of said modernization. Black people will be restored to their original glory and the process is taking place as we speak.
No Hope, is zero sum game there 😢😢😢😮
When you leave
@@baharimeliwell said
You all have never been civilised but commenting on others
Chimamanda my con3 woman I hail oo.
I think one of the issues she has is her willingness to openly identify with a political tribe;Left/Liberal. People seldomly use their brains in a tribe as such, a deviation from tribal points immediately attracts barrage of insults etc. I think it would've served her mental health better if ab initio she let the left knw that she's no tribal pun rather having've both liberal and conservative ideologies with more left leaning ideologies. By that, she won't have to feel d stress of having to fit into a tribal box.
Take Elon Musk, Joe Rogan just to mention a few... They're left leaning men that dont readily identify themselves as leftist
I like to think of my self as a realist...who LOGICALLY thinks through and through into a subject b4 agreeing/disagreeing with it. With that mindset, I've found out that I agree more and more with conservative viewpoints than the liberal ideas....so I'm probably 75% conservative and 25% liberal.
I remember watching a lot of Trevor Noah's commedy material and thinking to my self that this guy is very brilliant, very funny, spontaneous, ideologically free, real, honest etc etc After joining that Liberal Network in the US it became so so obvious to me that he was massively massively limited in expression of his art/content. He definitely felt unnatural, predictable, less funny, less creative...Mehnnn, it's was sad watching someone as creative as Trevor sticking to some ridiculous leftist talking points and trying to make them sound cool...Just watch the video of him interviewing a Transwoman Cyclist...no logical push backs from what that man claiming to be woman said.. pathetic
That being said, I hope Chimamanda is creating more awareness of probably the BIGGEST issue that holds Nigeria (and Africa as a whole) back which is CORRUPT LEADERSHIP.
While she's here talking about the perceived 'issues' of the western/European world, I will argue that she should DO MORE talking on her platforms or world stage about these our STUPID AND USELESS African leaders who commit the worst forms of human rights abuse possibly in the whole planet by stealing, killing etc When we expose these idiots, they'll think twice b4 thinking of patronising medical care or schools for their kids or shopping with looted money outside the con3. Rather than pointing at the spec in the White Man's eyes, let's focus on removing the log in ours.
Peace and Love
Sorry if I missed it but where was she speaking?
She should spend more time talking about Nigeria that has actually crumbled. A country that has abundant oil and can not take care of its citizens
The question was not about Nigeria. You have a miserable life in the U.S. and you even don't know it. She's American and has the same rights as you.
Of course, she does. But this stage was not about Nigeria. So, bury your sentiments please.
No. She is a Nigerian citizen.
@@gibson2675 Good for her. However, that does not change a thing. Your politicians, tv people spend their time discussing african countries, and with so much arrogance. She has all the rights to discuss american politics.
She spoke in general terms, she was not bragging about Nigeria, while bashing other countries/ people, which the west is known for. The discussion was not solely on the rise and fall of any country..I don’t know why people lack critical thinking.
Well i am Nigerian and a big fan on Chimamanda, infact we are from the same tribe in Nigeria but i fo not agree with her politically. We are mostly conservative in Nigeria and a mostly right leaning. There is a valid reason why Trump resonates with a large number of people in the US and i have done my research and i am one of those.
conservative in Nigeria is Different from Conservative in America and a big culture differences
@ilunonkem7499 I would not be in a hurry to disclose your affiliation to conservativism. I like Chimamanda too, but truth be known. You all talk to much, so much so, you can all talk till your all blue in the face and still not say anything of consequence.
@@mylesmills9666thank you brilliantly said!!
Trump is not a conservative. To support trump is pure vacuousness and mindlessness. Trump stoked hate and division and energized the racist base who detest immigrants. His impact led to a spike in viciousness towards blacks and immigrants that reverberates till date!!
Oh
In 2014, someone in my dorm asked me, “how do you get new music in Nigeria? Is there radio?” 😂
Watch this czcams.com/video/4amKKUmXNkI/video.html
We made this video in 2018! From what we have seen/heard since then, we could be making a variation of the same video every year!
Yeah I can believe ittttt
Liwe liwalo au faya kun faya. "Those with ability to understand kiswahili idioms will be the once to discern what I have said."
Are we rejoicing about this or what? Pls let me understand??
If the world fails it affect all of us!
Chevron company should go and replaced it with African's oil company .
Hers is Definitely a Single Story!
Yes, her view about things. Her right.
@@TheYayefatou My question is, if her preferred candidate had won, under the supposed circumstances, would she have written a letter?
@@irenegaruba48 she has the freedom to support any candidate/ president she likes. That sane right you have.
@@TheYayefatou Go figure!
If the US is crumbling then Nigeria has crumbled a long time ago.
I’ll informed comment.
They are not hiding it 😂😂😂
This is why you don’t just follow people, she sounds like she makes a lot of sense, then you listen carefully, I don’t get it, after having listened carefully. Everyone think for yourselves.
That is correct! She just admiring the African American culture and criticizing the propaganda in America. What don’t u get?
@@Akbgbvow and criticizing the right and thinks that the left is “safer” than the right. There’s a lot that can be said to that, and to the comments asking what she says about her own country, it’s true and not far fetched. Also, there’s propaganda on both sides, the leftist one is currently in rule and favoured so I don’t get where the right fits.
@@seektruth5750 yeah the left us re talking about is the LGBTQ community. They are indeed stupid but I don’t think she is that kind of left. I think left thinker have less hate towards others and the right wing people are so manipulative. U can’t argue with them. It’s not possible, so we have to defeat them with their own weapons!
When i thought i couldn't love thid woman anymore. Think Again!
There's an expectation that you will not get compassion.
Partisan politics...
Why do you think a candidate is dangerous for his country? This has been your stand from the unset and I completely disagree with you.
Here is a portion of what the Bible called a sing of the times in 2 Tim. 3:3 …"having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, without love of goodness, And that is how men are to be,
Rome 0.2
Good talk, but the title is click bait. And America due to geography and natural resources is indomitable
That's what they said about the titanic, blackberry and Nokia
That’s also what the Ottoman and British Empires. Hubris was AND his unwillingness to apologize were Satan’s downfall.
@@omowhanre We have at least 400 years more at the top. It is what it is.
@@MartynCollins You lot don't know what a woman is. You aren't reproducing. Your young are depressed, no longer believing in the "American dream". Your government has become an oligarchy, one that more and more people won't fight for, as declining army recruitment numbers shows. You have lost your soft power. You no longer innovate. Your dollar is losing power to BRICS.
Rome 2.0 is on the decline.
odeluwa the great ❤
The appeal of Donald Trump is easy to understand. Am suprised someone as intelligent she can't get it: Trump is a protest vote against the uniparty that takes normal working people for granted
Republicans are against raising the minimum wage, it should be it $44 now.
Interesting you think we are crumbling.
Of course you wouldn't agree with that statement coz it doesn't side with you. But i just advice you to read more about geopolitics. It's a lot going on out there. Russia had sanctions placed on them and the US thought they'd crumble but it backfired economically
You don't even know it. Wow
@@chibuikemugwuanyi757 I live in Americaand see the failures up close. i know the collapse of the total world system is eminent. But it won't happen for a short span of time. What you are seeing is the end of days, Biblical prophecy being fulfilled.
JESUS the CHRIST, KING of Glory is returning. Repentance is still available.
Africans and Africa do not have tribes. Europeans do , but now they are called nations.
Is she really criticizing American politics and Donald Trump? Who is the current president of Nigeria ? 😂😂😂😂😂😂.
She does make some great points but Donald Trump isn’t the down fall of America Biden is.
If she is a US citizen, even if she’s not she can still criticize/ comment on US politics. Your citizens have been doing the same about african countries, Nobody cared.
Has the Nigerian president done worse than Trump? 😂😂😂😂😂😂
What book of hers was banned? What pleasure does she speak of?
Pleasure of different opinions?!?!
@@Akbgbvow is that really what it says or about?
She did not say that any of her books were banned. She merely only voiced that the discourse or arguments are too tribally or religiously derived or defined. There is no attempt for rationality or objectivity. Only an attempt to play to your base or to one's own teams position irrespective of the evidence. She never once said anything about any of her books. Not once. Has far as I could tell.
Maybe he means the pleasure of social racism🤦🏻♂️
None of the presidents are the downfall of America, read Revalations.God is a God of truth, he does not lie. Stop hating on others , love is the answer.
The answer is in scripture and keeping the laws, statutes and commandments of the Creator.
what kind of interview is this that does not t focus on speaker's face is it because she is black???
Instead of being fixated on American crumbling, how about focus on how to build
Nigeria into being a world power 🫤
Africa 👍👍👍
@@welekid she's commented on Nigeria plenty... U must be sick... Besides she's a citizen of the world and is free to comment... please go back under the rock from which you emerged...
Why Nigeria world power in this time
What’s everyone’s obsession with America? How about fixing your own country before commenting on ours?
What do you expect from "omo Ibo" negatives always!!!😮😢
Because you're always in everyone's business
@@dadakeshinro6749 Tribalism will kill you for always deflecting to Igbo whenever you cant zip up your pants. Werey!
This is what they do they’re obsessed and jealous. They can’t focus on their dusty countries too busy watching us. Go and fix your country you should be too busy building to worry about anything going on in America. We are never worried about your country we are busy minding our business and building. Meanwhile your people are running to other countries because they want our lives 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 jealousy envy and desperation is what I get from Nigerians. My South African friends said they’re the worst on the continent.
Nigeria didn't exist during the trans-Atlantic slave trade so Nigeria owes nothing.
Glad to see how these people think 🤔
Interesting, all these brilliant people....why is Africa not better off? Why are so many Africans dying at sea and some of their people are ending up in slavery in the Middle East and North Africa eg. Libya today. Girls ending up as prostitutes in Dubai? It's time for Africa to get off the bottom. As black people all over the world, we are tired of it. It's time for a change. It's been centuries now.
Every intellectual eventually leaves the left. Give it time.
The left devours them when it's done with their useful idiocy
@@mikolowiskamikolowiska4993 The left devours intellectuals? How is that braniac. Give me an example of this phenomena.
This is what I dislike about African intellectuals. They make so much effort trying to appease the Western world. Why not focus on the carnage that is Africa. Too much poverty, disease, oppression, corruption. Too much grandstanding
You deflecting the truth about this country doesn’t help your cause only displays your public education… Shalom.
@CTS456 What has my education got to do with my point. Why would someone who comes from where she comes from be so pre occupied with America. And i'm not even suggesting that her point is valid or not
@@adetu264 The truth will make you free…that’s the point, not opinions
Maybe she is having a specific discussion about a specific thing at a specific time.
Which does not stop her from discussing other topics as well.
That’s being intellectual.
Keeping to the point of a discussion.
She actually made sense here.
@@mgbechikwuru And what makes her an expert.? Either way, i guess you have a point. She is entitled to discuss whatever topic she wants to discuss
As an African I’d still rather live here in America than go back to Africa. Our African leaders failed us along time ago. Look at South Africa, a hot mess… So yeah… Thanks
Enjoy the US and stop talking and obsessing about what you’ve left behind….why did you even click on a video about a place you think is falling apart? Lol, with you’re lying or you are weirdly obsessed with your past nation…don’t be that weirdo SA emigrant who still watches what’s happening hoping to validate their move and can’t stand that SA still stands and thrives despite the many challenges. I for one and millions of us here never want to leave our country South Africa, sure I’ve visited some European countries and American states with family but have no wish to live there…I have everything here in SA and more.I love my country and challenges that we have fuel me to be inventive. I’m young so I see a great future…adversity is an opportunity to invest and overcome. So good you left so you can now enjoy your new country and stop worrying yourself about things that clearly don’t serve you m.
I do not who you are, English is one of languages...if you believe that South Africa is where it is because ANC...i can't help...because you are listening one side of the propaganda...if you white I understand and if you are black...just educate some more...on the essential " no country is free or even have any chance to develop when it does not own the riches of their country ". Imagine how germans, brits, and americans where no owners of the riches of their countries...how happy would they be...if blacks own the riches of their countries? In this day and age ignorance is a choice...i am from Angola...i know the dream of my father's generation until Namibia and South Africa they were...they dreamed and my generation paid with blood. But they did not know well structured and planned the west worked the independence of the South hemisphere. Please read and think it your basic human ability divinely given to you...free market capitalism can not exist with killings, robbing and destruction of other nations...everybody in world knows this...if you are white I understand you God bless but just don't talk about a people you don't belong to or of land that don't belong by the will of God to your forefathers.
God bless you, please read professor Michael Hudson, Howard Nicholas, Richard Wolf research how sovereign are the countries from the border of California to Las Pampa in Argentina...please read please read please read please read for yourself.
Stop this grandstanding! please no one up manship here .Most of the world as we know it is hemorrhaging in one way or another.
Boasting is division. Nigeria Hmm 😂 look all Empires will fall we are in our days now.Lets look inside our hearts and minds open our eyes and ears. Help each other when we can and know that all our survival as a species are are dependent on each other .
Enough said. Still found benefit in the video.
Why don't you talk about your first country, Nigeria?
Nigeria has already crumbled especially having a drug lord as its President. funny country
You're not making any sense, I don't agree with the left or Chimamanda on most things but she's an immigrant and lives in America now. Moreover, the interviewer is asking her about the US.
I believe she did. Touché seems she made too much sense for you, you SINGULAR-PASSPORT-HOLDING-FELLOW! Are you pissed she makes more $$$$ than you😂😂😂
You poor thing! #GETWELLSOON!!!
With all the things you think you know about, Nigeria and its people are far better than your country and your people. At least african do not carry the level of hate you have. They are kindhearted people.
Mumu dey play
So what are you doing about our Africa other than the tweet
And you are doing.......?????
How vacuous!! Chimamanda is not on social media how much more twitter!!
What if I’m pro black and also pro MAGA and also a hip hop artist teaching financial literacy?🤔
And ask yourself how many Woke leftist haters I have?
With all due respect, Chimamanda, are you absolutely sure you're making sense?
Are you truly sure all is well with you?
Yes she is. She is speaking an unpalatable truth.
Chimamanda apparently wants to carve out a cozy little niche for herself as an intellectual and writer, all the while ignoring the large elephant in the room, the hot mess that is Nigeria. While occasionally taking performative shots at western powers, it come off as disingenuous as Koffi Addo’s similar occasional performative finger wagging, always followed by immediate grovelling before the same west, for crumbs or favor. Like it or not, it is your responsibility (along with all of you highly intelligent and favored Nigerians who have fled your country) to come together and fix Nigeria. If not you all, whose responsibility is it? You’ve been in the states long enough to know the circumstance of Africans being here has less to do with your fabulousness --- although you are fabulous - than geopolitical chess moves. Your presence is not coincidental or an act of US largess. It is intentional manipulation intended to strategically disrupt the ADOS population while conveniently positioning African (and other imported alien populations) above ADOS. That’s our fight. Meanwhile there’s a convicted drug dealing tool of the west at the helm of your rich country and if you don’t address your specific challenge, that is the only thing you (collectively) will ever really be know for.
Are u just mad cuz a black Nigerian lady is intellectually superior and wealthy than you?😅
She has talked extensively about Nigeria & our issues on multiple platforms. Her books are a deep dive into Nigerian society, its complexities & its challenges. She spends a large amount of her time in Nigeria, contributing to the cultural & intellectual landscape, running writers workshops, mentoring & supporting young writers. She has actively contributed to & supported LGBT & other causes in Nigeria. She is talking about the US here because that is what the discussion is about, not. Nigeria. She is US citizen, resident & taxpayer so it is her right to do so. If you want to challenge her position & opinions on the US do so - but these " Well go fix Nigeria first " & "Africans are here to displace ADOS" responses are really silly & puerile. Do better
@stephife The pain you are feeling is from your weave, it’s sewn in to tight
You obviously don't follow her if you did you will know that she has spoken openly about Nigeria 🇳🇬 So many times so much so she was castigated by some of the policitans. I'm addition she was almost cancelled because some people took her words out of context. So she knows what she's speaking about. If this is your first time hearing her speak them you may want to research more of her speeches. She's an intelligent Black African Woman that some people will find challenging.
Also she's not carving out any Niche she already has. People want to hear her speak. She's been doing this for almost 15 years. So her path has been carved Keep up.
America is fine. Look at the person telling you that America is beginning to crumble. Africa is crumbling faster than ever that’s why there are coups north and coup west.
And yet still one has to recognise that "Africa" is not and has never been one country.
I wonder why,is it because we don't have any use for all the minerals Africa has or African countries only manufacturers weopons
America is crumbling its doomed. Africa is beginning to Rise up. Don't get defensive and start finger pointing and getting personal there's nothing wrong with her or what she's saying.
Africa has not even started, so we can't even be talking about Africa crumbling. Before anything can crumble it needs to stand first. She said that because the world see America as the good standard.
@@mercyikhena7889 Anerica the Good standard? They are responsible for a lot of atrocities they have inflicted on countries around the globe including their own people. Let's not kid ourselves with that misguided enslaved mentality.