Nigerian writer Chimamanda Adichie is an award-winning novelist, essayist, and speaker. A MacArthur genius grant recipient, she has spoken...
Nigerian writer Chimamanda Adichie is an award-winning novelist, essayist, and speaker.
A MacArthur genius grant recipient, she has spoken in front of the United Nations about the global refugee crisis, advocated for underrepresented cultures, and talked about the need for feminism in Nigeria and around the world.
The writer revealed in a recent interview that she indeed got a lot of request for interviews from across the world after she got featured on Beyonce’s single ‘Flawless’. She sort of doesn’t feel good because she keeps getting asked the same question about how Beyonce made her become a success. She revealed that she’s always been self made and Beyonce featuring her was only a plus.
“In addition, Beyoncé is a celebrity of the first order and with this song she has reached many people who would otherwise probably never have heard the word feminism, let alone gone out and buy my essay, but I was shocked about how many requests for an interview I received when that song was released.
“Literally every major newspaper in the world wanted to speak with me about Beyoncé and how she gave me fame. I felt such resentment. I thought: are books really that unimportant to you?
“Another thing I hated was that I read everywhere: now people finally know her, thanks to Beyoncé, or: she must be very grateful. I found that disappointing.
“I thought: I am a writer, self made, and I have been for some time and I refuse to perform in this charade that is now apparently expected of me: ‘Thanks to Beyoncé, my life will never be the same again.’
“That’s why I didn’t speak about it much. “Still, her type of feminism is not mine. As it is the kind that, at the same time, gives quite a lot of space to the necessity of men.
“I think men are lovely, but I don’t think that women should relate everything they do to men: did he hurt me, do I forgive him, did he put a ring on my finger? We women are so conditioned to relate everything to men.
“Put a group of women together and the conversation will eventually be about men. Put a group of men together and they will not talk about women at all, they will just talk about their own stuff.
“We women should spend about 20% of our time on men, because it’s fun, but otherwise we should also be talking about our own stuff,” she added.
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