Nigerian award winning author and feminist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is beautiful and powerful on the cover of the latest edition of the Telegraph Magazine. In this October issue, Chichi, discussed Nigeria, Misogyny and the #MeTooMovement.
The unrepentant feminist said she lost faith in Nigeria after her dad was kidnapped in 2015. She felt like it happened because of her.
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"It's because of me, That incident affected my father -- it robbed him of something; there is a distrust that he didn't have before. He comes from a generation with a certain kind of integrity. For a long time he didn't understand things like bribery -- it just perplexed him. My father has given his everything -- he got his PhD in the US and he had job offers there in the 1960s, but he was kin to come back to Nigeria. It was post-independence and everyone was very enthusiastic and my father spent his life teaching. I felt that Nigeria had failed him -- for a man of his age to be thrown into the boot of a car. That incident broke my heart and it's the first time I started to seriously question Nigeria".
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