“I’m still thinking about how I feel about Nigeria” Chimamanda Adichie says after being called a demon

Chimamanda Adichie doesn’t really feel good about Nigeria

The workstation, a commerce hub was filled with fans of acclaimed writer, Chimamanda Adichie on Saturday the 22st of September 2018.  It was an evening of conversations around the writer’s recent books We should all be Feminist and Dear Ijeawele. It was at the hangout that the writer said that she is still thinking about how she feels about Nigeria.

It can be recalled that there was a backlash after her interview with Hilary Clinton when she questioned her about her Twitter bio. After the interview, she was labeled all sort of things and called all sort of names for questioning the status quo.  Journalist Fredrick Nwabufo even said that she will lead other women to hell.

While talking at the hangout she said:

“watching my mother, I felt close to tears,” she said.  Adichie, whose clap back at a French journalist who had asked her if there were libraries in Nigeria warmed her to the hearts of many, said the episode made her begin to rethink how she felt about Nigeria.

When I got back to Lagos and there is just all of this noise and apparently it’s just all of ugliness, people said to me: ‘they are writing public letters to you. They said you are a demon; that you want to break up marriages, all kinds of things. I felt. Let me be honest, that is the first time I really started to rethink how I felt about Nigeria.

I have never done that before. Until then, I had been a very dutiful daughter of Nigeria and I am still at that phase where I am thinking about how I really, really feel about Nigeria.”