Did Chimamanda Say She Went Into Depression ?

mz_daniels May 30, 2018 at 9:21 am

I love Chimamanda very much. However, Chimamanda should not think Nigerians are jealous of her international success when they criticize her. Recently, she has began to put people off and come across as emotionally unintelligent in the things she says.
America has been known to use and dump celebrities of other races and the uproar is actually a warning cry; maybe we can be a bit more diplomatic and nicer in the way we warn her but then Nigerians give the most dramatic advise.

All we ask is that she apply tact. All things are lawful but all things are not expedient.

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UberHaute Looks

 

Uberhaute Looks May 30, 2018 at 10:14 am

See, social media has brought out the monster in a lot of Nigerians. She however never said all Nigerian… She said a set of Nigerians!

If someone like me that isn’t as popular as chimamanda could go into depression because people destructively criticized my work on social media, then you understand.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie   Lofficiel  Italia

One part of the article talks about her rise from being an up and coming writer to established Bestselling author of Half of A Yellow Sun. Since attaining great heights in her career, Chimamanda is very in Nigeria. Her face is on billboards. People crowd around her at the airport. When she enters a restaurant, there is a ripple of recognition. Sometimes she will ask for the bill and discover that someone else has paid for her meal. She is admired as a Nigerian who has become an international celebrity, bringing renown to her country and a sense that now, for a Nigerian, anything is possible.

But, because she is so visible, everything she does or says is scrutinized. Once asked where she went instead to find the best African fiction, she said, “My mailbox,” where she received her workshop students’ stories. This was met with a lot of backlashes, especially from Nigerian Twitter. One user wrote; “It doesn’t take much brain juice to realize from her interviews that Ms CNA’s ego can sink an island. So the best African fiction is in Chimamanda Adichie’s inbox?”. Another said, “I hail thee, queen-god mother. Go f–k yourself, Chimamanda.”

On being African in America

There is a certain kind of black American that deeply resents an African whom they think of as privileged. Privileged Nigerians especially. My husband and I have got to the airport and they’ve said to us, You’re Nigerian, I bet you have twenty-five thousand dollars in your bag, let’s see it.