There was a country

Well spoken..

Nationalist2016:
I think Nigeria's larger tragedy is a very selfish elite, a highly pliable and restless citizenry and a seriously decadent political class. There are very few critics, especially the type that enjoy goodwill from a critical mass who detach tone and temperament whilst offering their opinions on an unpopular subject. So, somehow you will always find "social critics" aligning with popular opinions or causes. And this here is another example, we see it nearly every week, the likes of Pat Utomi, Dele Momodu (a well known flake) and his ilk. Not a lot of this group can distinguish between shaping public opinion and rehashing public sentiments. This is why I say Nigeria is full of Selfists!. These guys think first about their "brand" and constituency rather than broadening the space of thought and daring to offer an unpopular hypothesis. It beats me how Chimamanda will show up with her letters and propagate anecdotes, false impressions and contrived grievances as though they were hard facts. She vainly tries to contrive balance in her faulty analysis, but her skewed point is made. If you are reading this Ms,Adichie ask yourself if it is really true that the anti-corruption war is willfully only targeting opposition? Ask yourself if judges were "harassed and intimidated" like you say. There is a clear difference between explaining and complaining, try if you can to estimate the larger damage politically driven economic sabotage has cost the country and juxtapose that with the wrong perception of flawed economic policy. You do not become a great social critic simply rehashing opinions - because for the most part opinions are NOT facts! I am older than you are - so I also lived during Buhari's short first term in office. The picture you paint of generalised brutality is not one I can remember. You probably read this from the economist and have presented it here as fact. Nigerian armed forces are generally poorly trained - brutality is their badge and it wasn't less or more under Buhari.

Whilst it is true that Buhari has made some mistakes, configuring his cabinet late being the most obvious - it is disingenuous to isolate commentary into a shallow, narrow tube of cause and effect. The Buhari regime has met really difficult times in which the country has NO EASY choices to make. This is why "explaining" NOT complaining has become important. The persons responsible for the lingering rot are uncomfortable with their history and the looming realisation that they WILL pay for it. They have raised the decibel of deflection - mainstreaming the argument about complaining and the likes of Momodu, Adichie and Utomis of this world continue to egg them on. They hunt for likes on social media and constantly want to bask in critical self congratulation. They offer obfuscated analysis and think they can get away with it simply because they are singing the popular chorus. We need to configure a space for wider societal debate about Nigeria. Social media has become a serious threat to critical analysis and democracy as a whole. Even accomplished persons have been seduced by its false "neighbourhood effect". This piece may have been written for terrestrial media but the author no doubt knew it would have a bigger impact on social media.


Whilst Chimamanda writes beautifully when it comes to social commentary she does not write truthfully! Maybe she learn a thing or two from the likes of Sonala Olumhense and Okey Ndibe

You are very right, the elites are our greatest problems, the current economy only look so bad because its the first time the elites got hit very badly which is affecting their wasteful lifestyle. Nigeria's economy has always been very bad for the poor for so many years but elites has always had their way but this time they got screwed badly by PMB and that's why they will keep shouting until thy Kingdom come.

Angelsss:
this is why Africa would never go forward...sycophancy has taken over us...
It was still this Adichie woman that praised Bihari last year when he won the election, saying GEJ Regime had failed her and everything crappy about GEJ ...
She's now speaking against Because her tribes people are being killed....

let's stop this behavior and stand for the truth...we need writers like her and Soyinka to preach to Nigerians to see the light... what has Adichie done to effect moral and social development? apart from loaning us extremism of feminist ideas?

what the Fulani' herdsmen are doing is so wrong... but what did you expect when you supported a fanatic?

if actually u get sense as little as a mustard seed you would have understood what you read, that's if u read it anyways. She mentioned it that she was happy a change was coming just like majority of Nigerians but was failed by the govt. Due to their many mistakes and unnecessary policies.

ISTANDWITHBUHAR:



So they belong to

Eatery, Cinema, and Hotel room?

I can see that ur wife, sister, daughters and mum belong to eatery, cinema, hotel room e.t.c Sensible and educated women like Angel Merkel, Janet Yellen, Melinda Gates, Christine Lagarde, Mary Barra, Oprah Winfrey, Sheryl Sandberg, Okonjo Iwela, late Dora Akuyili e.t.c belong to better places than kitchen and other rooms. They belong to what ever that concerns d welfare and progress of d societies.

Emmahunk:
Writers, actors and actresses are fast becoming politicians dabbling into an area they know little or nothing about.
Chimamanda is a lady I love and respect so much so I will hold my peace. However, governance is far beyond what many think.
If PMB must get it right, he must go the way he is going right now. It's difficult we all know but a guaranteed future can never be possible without the sacrifices of today.

A thousand likes for you sir!

kayo80:

A thousand likes for you sir!

Bro awfa with your story na?

yorhmienerd:
Bro awfa with your story na?

Oops! Sorry I stopped writing for a while...I will conclude the last 5 chapters this weekend.

Mrs. Adichie you said last year that Mr. Buhari was your messiah, why are you ditching him so soon? You never see nothing yet.

I can never understand how people can feel comfortable advising the government on policy to execute, what then is the point of having one?! Anyway, afonjas, abokis and their sympathizers must enjoy buhari like a cold, till he runs his course! STUPID IDIOTS!

Kosy79:
Afonjas the slaves. Here comes the general champion of zombies.
I wonder if u have seen d four walls of kindergarten that u couldn't comprehend d message she passed on.

Must u sell ur brain for a plate of Amala and Ewedu

Call a spade a spade, if u see white just say it's white and if u see black say it's black, if Buhari do good praise him and if he do bad condemn him but if u fail to do so that means u are stupid cos if I say tribalist it's under statement

Keep shut that trap. I did not bother to read her trash because she is the most bigoted celebrity Nigeria has ever produced.

Today she is a writer
Tomorrow a child psychologist
Next day a politician
Now an economist

What does she know about economics? She should focus on her writing and bigotry and spare us this IPOB inspired trash.

Never before have we seen a divisive, sad, hateful and negative minded celebrity as Adichie.

1stCitizen:


Keep shut that trap. I did not bother to read her trash because she is the most bigoted celebrity Nigeria has ever produced.

Today she is a writer
Tomorrow a child psychologist
Next day a politician
Now an economist

Open that crap u called mouth. I did not bother to know about u because u are a nobody that has Nuffin to impact on d lives of human beings and also u are the most senseless zombie that Nigeria has ever produce.
Today u are a Nairaland general of all rants
Tomorrow a sell out zombie
Next day a lost soul
Now a child of hate and bitterness.

Before u criticise her get where she had gotten to, sit where she had sat, get awards she had gotten and meet with people she had met and lastly make ur name known like hers. Thanks Sweetheart

Kosy79:
Open that crap u called mouth. I did not bother to know about u because u are a nobody that has Nuffin to impact on d lives of human beings and also u are the most senseless zombie that Nigeria has ever produce.
Today u are a Nairaland general of all rants
Tomorrow a sell out zombie
Next day a lost soul
Now a child of hate and bitterness.

Before u criticise her get where she had gotten to, sit where she had sat, get awards she had gotten and meet with people she had met and lastly make ur name known like hers. Thanks Sweetheart

Another demented IPOB child of hate spewing all the hate from Hades.

blues20:

That is the Igbo spirit in her. We are not afraid of calling a spade a spade. Nwane' madu, kedu ije?

Nnaa anom ya o! Obodo buzi Igwe, ndi bi na ya buluzie agaga. Ntuhari ntuhari ka eke ji anya anwu. Jehovah bu Eze.

Kedu nke na eme na your side?

1stCitizen:


Another demented IPOB child of hate spewing all the hate from Hades.

Another brainless and senseless Afonja child of slavery spewing all d senseless thing d Amala and Ewedu can trigger when eaten

Igboid:
Was it not still this Adichie person that was criticizing GEJ and praising Buhari not long ago.

Too many shortsighted individuals who felt an illiterate who couldn't pass his WAEC is the solution for Nigeria's problems.
Serves them all right. Atleast she is wise enough to accept she was wrong about Buhari.

The most painful part is that those 'enlightened and educated' supporters are not resident in Nigeria or they have dual citizenship that enables them to relocate whenever they want. They were the most vociferous, unbending and unforgiving in their criticisms of Jonathan and swayed so many dull ones to believe their crap. Now the shït has hit the fan, they are safely out of harm's way either completely silent or being 'carefully' critical. The no-holds-barred, loudmouth syndrome they all acquired pre May 2015 has suddenly been cured with shame or fear. It is now those here that bear the brunt! Same is applicable to some of the useless supporters on this forum.

Kosy79:
Another brainless and senseless Afonja child of slavery spewing all d senseless thing d Amala and Ewedu can trigger when eaten

^^^^ An offspring of Clifford Orji ranting.

Kosy79:
I can see that ur wife, sister, daughters and mum belong to eatery, cinema, hotel room e.t.c Sensible and educated women like Angel Merkel, Janet Yellen, Melinda Gates, Christine Lagarde, Mary Barra, Oprah Winfrey, Sheryl Sandberg, Okonjo Iwela, late Dora Akuyili e.t.c belong to better places than kitchen and other rooms. They belong to what ever that concerns d welfare and progress of d societies.

Calm your nerves daughter of hate, Sometimes i wonder what happen to your brain but i remember you having plots of lands on your head so to think straight will be very hard. Aisha Buhari who her husband makes that statement is presently in Brussels attending a forum, She never even respond to what her husband said but you and your likes put it on your head like the plots of land you have on and still ranting about it..

PMB and Aisha children are schooling abroad and the children never even say anything cos they know their Parent very well and also know how their father use to joke with them.

Now back to your matter, You can never be a good woman or wife if you never believe in those statements, Even if PMB was joking with it but there's some truth in it. Did your mother prepare food for your father in toilet? Did your parents after the meal relax in the toilet? Did your Parent in an Hotel room?

Well i can bet my life you might have miss count on how many times you've been taking to the hotel..

Get off my mention you divorce applicant.

booblacain:
His intentions, good as they well might be, are rooted in an outdated economic model and an infantile view of Nigerians. For him, it seems, patriotism is not a voluntary and flexible thing, with room for dissent, but a martial enterprise: to obey without questioning. Nationalism is not negotiated, but enforced. - Chimamanda Adichie

All hail Nigeria's new top rated economist in the person of Chimamanda Adichie.

Kosy79:
I can see that ur wife, sister, daughters and mum belong to eatery, cinema, hotel room e.t.c Sensible and educated women like Angel Merkel, Janet Yellen, Melinda Gates, Christine Lagarde, Mary Barra, Oprah Winfrey, Sheryl Sandberg, Okonjo Iwela, late Dora Akuyili e.t.c belong to better places than kitchen and other rooms. They belong to what ever that concerns d welfare and progress of d societies.

1. My wife--She belong to my kitchen cos of after work she come back home, Go to the kitchen and cook for me and my children.

2. My wife- She belong to my living room cos after eating we cuddle on a chair and watch some lovely movie together sometimes football and we did last night and we are still going to do the same tonight.

3. My wife- Belong to my bedroom cos that where we rest together at night while she put her head on my chest and i wrap my arms around her.

Well i know you never experience the above cos you never grow up to learn about them or see your parents do the number 1&2 together..

1stCitizen:


^^^^ An offspring of Clifford Orji ranting.

°°°°An offspring of coward Abiola. Rat killer is still sold at d market in case u need it

Kosy79:
°°°°An offspring of coward Abiola. Rat killer is still sold at d market in case u need it

Babe that was harsh

You should not thread words with lugubrigous fellows

Igboid:


Nnaa anom ya o! Obodo buzi Igwe, ndi bi na ya buluzie agaga. Ntuhari ntuhari ka eke ji anya anwu. Jehovah bu Eze.

Kedu nke na eme na your side?

Nwane'm anom' ia. The terrain is very tough, but God will see us through. Chukwu adie a'kura. One love Bro.

Kosy79:
°°°°An offspring of coward Abiola. Rat killer is still sold at d market in case u need it

Abiola vs Clifford Orji?......hmmmmmm. With this level of IQ, it is not surprising that flat.heads got massacred like chickens during their last misadventure of starting a civil war. These Ipob im.beciles will soon download another crisis that will wipe out their entire race.

ISTANDWITHBUHAR:


Calm your nerves daughter of hate, Sometimes i wonder what happen to your brain but i remember you having plots of lands on your head so to think straight will be very hard. Aisha Buhari who her husband makes that statement is presently in Brussels attending a forum, She never even respond to what her husband said but you and your likes put it on your head like the plots of land you have on and still ranting about it..

PMB and Aisha children are schooling abroad and the children never even say anything cos they know their Parent very well and also know how their father use to joke with them.

Now back to your matter, You can never be a good woman or wife if you never believe in those statements, Even if PMB was joking with it but there's some truth in it. Did your mother prepare food for your father in toilet? Did your parents after the meal relax in the toilet? Did your Parent in an Hotel room?

Well i can bet my life you might have miss count on how many times you've been taking to the hotel..

Get off my mention you divorce applicant.

Calm down ur nerves son of Slavery
Wow!!!! I never knew u are one of buhari households. My father has never and will never joke about my mum on a serious occasion. My dad is a business man and doesn't joke on interview about his business.

There is a big difference between joke *with* my wife and joke *about* my wife.

My mum cooks in d kitchen but she doesn't belong there.

I give up on u cos ur brain is dilapidated.

ikombe:
Babe that was harsh

You should not thread words with lugubrigous fellows

Boo I sight u, no mind d idiot

Kosy79:
Calm down ur nerves son of Slavery
Wow!!!! I never knew u are one of buhari households. My father has never and will never joke about my mum on a serious occasion. My dad is a business man and doesn't joke on interview about his business.

There is a big difference between joke *with* my wife and joke *about* my wife.

My mum cooks in d kitchen but she doesn't belong there.

I give up on u cos ur brain is dilapidated.

What's your mother business in the kitchen taking selfie? LOL

Most ladies always take pride with their kitchen, Some even sometimes jokingly ask their husband or anybody this question...WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY KITCHEN Why did some women ask that?

Orikinla:
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She is not the most respected.
Ben Okri is there above her.
And of course, the great Lion of Negritude, first black Nobel Prize winner in Literature, Prof. Wole Soyinka is still the most respected.


Chimamanda has raised her issues against the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.
But as much as her points are good, I can see that she is still one of the elites of the hypocritical ruling class who only feel threatened when government policies affect their elitist lifestyles. Their indulgence in imported foreign goods.

She has a young nanny who should be going to school and not babysitting for Madam Chimamanda.
The nanny is from a poor family and the best Madam Chimamanda can do is use the underprivileged girl as housemaid instead of sponsoring her schooling for a good education.
Child abuse is a crime.

Madam Chimamanda knows how to criticize, but what has she done to help her community and country?
Is employing a poor Igbo girl as housemaid her own own contribution to national development?

I am also a writer and Founder and Executive Director of Girls United Together for Success (GUTS) project for the promotion of education, protection and welfare of underprivileged girl in Nigeria, endorsed by UNICEF.
I want to discover and help to produce more Chimamandas and not nannies.

How do you know it wasn't a young lady in her 20's more interested in learning a skill to help her be self-sufficient? From ur enclave u already label Chimamanda a criminal guilty of child abuse. It is clearly stated that it was a young woman! This is what she wrote in the article:

A few months ago, a young woman, Chidera, came to work as a nanny in my Lagos home. A week into her job, I found her in tears in her room. She needed to go back to her ancestral home in the southeast, she said, because Fulani herdsmen had just murdered her grandfather on his farm. She showed me a gruesome cellphone photo of his corpse, desecrated by bullets, an old man crumpled on the farm he owned.

There u are asking what her contribution is to national development and attempting to rubbish what she stands for, in other words pulling her down to portray yourself as a better person with this:

I am also a writer and Founder and Executive Director of Girls United Together for Success (GUTS) project for the promotion of education, protection and welfare of underprivileged girl in Nigeria, endorsed by UNICEF.
I want to discover and help to produce more Chimamandas and not nannies.

Who told u putting another down automatically lifts u up? If u feel she has contributed nothing as evidenced by the thinly veiled sarcasm and blatant accusations in ur write-up, why do u want to produce more 'Chimamandas'? The fact that u can even use her name as a positive label to be aspired to is a giant leap in development for the girl child and female folk generally or don't u know that? With her books, movies, lectures and talks she is building minds, channeling and inspiring young people to break the societal molds and aspire to be more. If that is not a huge contribution, I don't know what else is!

Your pain rather was in arguing whether she is the most respected in the literary field or not...unsurprising anyways. You obviously had nothing to criticise about her identifying the destructive failure and ineptitude of buhari and his government and that is why u resorted to the cheap game of attempting to discredit her person. Just goes to show...

1stCitizen:


Keep shut that trap. I did not bother to read her trash because she is the most bigoted celebrity Nigeria has ever produced.

Today she is a writer
Tomorrow a child psychologist
Next day a politician
Now an economist

What does she know about economics? She should focus on her writing and bigotry and spare us this IPOB inspired trash.

Never before have we seen a divisive, sad, hateful and negative minded celebrity as Adichie.

Bro don't mind that kosy79 of a lady, She is one of those who don't have anything upstairs

1stCitizen:


Abiola vs Clifford Orji?......hmmmmmm. With this level of IQ, it is not surprising that flat.heads got massacred like chickens during their last misadventure of starting a civil war. These Ipob im.beciles will soon download another crisis that will wipe out their entire race.

Hmmmmmm it's not surprising how Nigerians gave Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon for d closure of borders as a way to prevent SE from shipping weapons and how they begged for help from Britain just to defeat one tribe. I won't say that d only people that doesn't know how mighty and great Igbos are, are d myopic ones but Stupid and foolish of ur likes. Afonjas are destined to be slaves as long as Amala and Ewedu is served.

ISTANDWITHBUHAR:


Bro don't mind that kosy79 of a lady, She is one of those who don't have anything upstairs

Oga with something upstairs a.k.a Albert Einstein what are u still waiting for to get known or what is keeping u from inventing something new and amazing since u stand with buhari what are u still waiting for to speed and boost d economy or better still take Nigerians out of recession.

Adichie, u wrote well. But u are a fool. Agreed dat Jonathan bleeped up ( which u said before election) but wat were u thinking when u thought dat an old army general , who we all know his antecedents, will suddenly become a messiah?
U re a fool by thinking in dat direction and believe so to be possible. The leopard can never loose its spots. So u can be diapointed for all I care.....I knew is gonna b like dat earlier therefore I am not disappointed. Take heart dear