Comments on: Chimamanda Adichie (BSS #141)

By: ayobami

ayobami — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:02:14 +0000

I am Yoruba and I think Mr Falae should 1) read the book and 2) learn a little more about Nigerian politics before running his mouth. By the way Mr Falae, it is unfortunate that though you are Yoruba, you are unaware that the Yoruba are NOT a minority. Plus we are definitely not a silent tribe, check out Awolowo’s role in the war. Kudos to Miss Adichie

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[...] fellows have been announced. On the literary front, there’s Chimamanda Adichie, who you can listen to on The Bat Segundo Show. There’s also Alex Ross, a competent mainstream critic whose inclusion suggests that the [...]

By: Marian Amoye

Marian Amoye — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:24:32 +0000

Falae sounds like a typical uneducated Nigerian who obviously did not read the book. Do read and enjoy, draw from the values. Who really deserves to suffer. Do stop thinking within the box and act like you belong to a generation of change in Nigeria.

By: Paschal Obinna Ozoigbo

Paschal Obinna Ozoigbo — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:40:02 +0000

I do not quite agree with Ayo Falae; Adichie is a writer who has expressed an indomitable sense of pride about a people, the Biafrans, through Half of a Yellow Sun. She has made the world understand that the Igbo are a brave and fearless and hospitable people who have always wanted peace and harmony to reign in any nation in which they find themselves. And if they do not find it, they will, undauntedly, go to any length to look for it. But it’s very unfortunate that America and Britain, of all people, were not there for them in the course of their struggle to protect Biafra, their new-born child, from that horrible predator, Nigeria.

This Biafra story was not told by Adichie out of emotion. It is a story told out of national pride, a story born from the fact that Adichie, like every other person who was once Biafran, passionately wanted that it be told to the whole world again and again, especially to every man, woman and child from the Igbo community.

Adichie simply wanted to remind the Igbo community, and of course the whole world, what happened at some point in the history of the Igbo. She wanted, in my estimation, to exhume an event, which was long buried by the new Nigeria that emerged thereafter. She wanted to, at least, educate her contemporaries who never witnessed the genocide, so that they would have a right sense of identity after knowing who they were, where they were coming from and where they are heading, presently.

Paschal Obinna Ozoigbo
Lagos, Nigeria.

By: AYO FALAE

AYO FALAE — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:22:43 +0000

I was gearing up to read your works until I read your interviews. It then felt like I had read all your work. Please I genuinely do not mean any offence at all but you strike me as emotionally Biafran and commercially Nigerian.Plainly put, naive war monger and mercenary writer – and you seem , with characteristic cultural arrogance, to damn the damage it may cause your respectability, even in the long run?
Clearly, you reserve the right to feel as you wish but not to write ‘factually based fiction’ from the perspective of those who ‘got what they deserved’.
What about the silent Minority (the Yorubas) who got what they did not deserve?