shamecurls:
The literature is quite informative but glaring that it's basis is about still winning audience as the Author's profession demands. It has failed to broaden, counter and profer solutions to her highlights like an economist would have done.

It's just about pain and gain, Buhari's policies re on track though I might disagree with some which is based on personal analysis judgement. Buhari is simply breaking bends that with flex our economy.

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?

shamecurls:
The literature is quite informative but glaring that it's basis is about still winning audience as the Author's profession demands. It has failed to broaden, counter and profer solutions to her highlights like an economist would have done.

It's just about pain and gain, Buhari's policies re on track though I might disagree with some which is based on personal analysis judgement. Buhari is simply breaking bends that with flex our economy.

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.

OkoNDOoBo:

If with all that he could win a noble laureate in literature English,then I don't mind following his footsteps so that I can win an award no man or woman, has won in the entire igbos race

vicben27:
i dnt have time for an idiot lik u! am nt the oxford dictionary nor did i graduate frm d university of yale! but for a dullard lik u who cant simply differenciate btwn abrevatin frm writin a complet sentence i'll say go n get some sense!

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?

GoldCircle:
Oh how the tables have turned. Just about 18 months ago, it was all about Jonathan being called an 'ineffectual Buffon'.

The APC should stew in their own vomit. Their brand of politics is being served graciously to them.

OkoNDOoBo:

How dare u pair her name with wole soyinka,even her ancestor name achebe is behind him
Wole don't need to convince anybody again, he has won the highest honour in literature.
Was jailed because of useless Biafra war.
He is a strong critics of govt,he was in Aso Rock Months ago to hold a one on One meeting with the president.
what Else do you want from him

chikenicholas:
We all had high hopes when this government came into power, and because she openly expressed support for them does not mean she should keep mute when things are not going as they should in this country. We have all been disappointed by the failure of the Buhari's admininstration to fulfill its campaign promises. She is stating the obvious in her write-up which you should see and not bringing tribal sentiment into this. She is standing for the truth and am sure you are holding this position because you feel those that are killed are not from your region. If you truly believe in one Nigeria, you will see everyone that has been affected by the Fulani herdsmen attack as your brother or sister irrespective of what part of the country they come from.

She is using her platform to showcase Nigeria to the western world as she is respected globally for her literary prowess. She preaching feminism is to give credence that women does not belong to the Kitchen, living room and the other room but that they can aspire to great heights as their male folks.

So please learn to better appreciate our own in this country. God bless Nigeria

Kosy79:
U are d fool of 21st century to say that Chinua Achebe is behind Soyinka, even Wole will spit on u if he sees this, Wole never cease to thank Achebe for his impact on him.
#RespectTheGodOfLiterature

I rather have a broken hand or leg than to lose my sense to tribalism

OkoNDOoBo:


Thank him for what??

Is it For wole going to prison because of biafra cause, while achebe was a free man and feeding fat with his family during the war?

Or u mean thanking him for the role he played for wole to win a noble laureate award?


tell me something I'm not understanding lol

omohayek:
As usual, some Nairalanders simply can't resist the urge to derail a promising thread through idiotic tribalistic attacks. What does Adichie's background have to do with anything she's said here? How would it make anything she says less true? Some of you people seriously need help - not everything needs to be made into an "Igbo vs Yoruba" quarrel.

Getting to the actual article, I can't see how anyone can argue with what Adichie has written. Buhari's delay in appointing ministers was simply inexcusable, as he should have done the necessary vetting during the campaign period, to enable him to hit the ground running if he won: that's how things are done where people know what they're doing.

Adichie is also absolutely correct about Buhari's economic policies, as they are nothing more than the same old socialistic nonsense he tried back in 1984, leading to the same results as they did then: shortages and hardship everywhere. When you artificially cap the prices of goods and services in the name of "saving the masses", you end up up with shortages, and that is as true in Nigeria as it is in Venezuela. Notice how the petrol shortages magically disappeared when Buhari finally relented and allowed pump prices to rise? The current "dollar shortage" is also equally artificial and easily fixable, but the ignorant Nigerian masses seem happy enough to suffer while Dangote and a few lucky others continue to be subsidized with cheap dollars at their expense.

I won't even get started about the DSS raid on the judges, which so many people on here continue to cheer uncritically, simply because the DSS claims to have carried it out in the name of "fighting corruption". Never mind that it's easy enough to take a picture of a stack of money and claim it was seized from whomever; nobody who knows how this will look to outsiders can imagine the effect will be to do anything other than scare away foreign investors. Nobody wants to put their money into a country where the masses dismiss the rule of law to cheer on a strongman arbitrarily dispensing "justice".

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.

uzolexis:


I'm all for making sacrifices for a better future but if you think Buhar's policies are on track then you also know nothing about economics.

ISTANDWITHBUHAR:


Lol powerful my foot, Who has she impacted, What has her region benefited from her?

PRYCE01:
Chai! This piece just broke El-Dullardeen's ball! This one na Terra-Punch!

1stCitizen:
Igbos are children of hate. Here comes their feminist champion of hate.

Kosy79:
Impact doesn't mean giving money to people or buying houses or cars fro them but A significant or strong influence, through her books e.g Purple hibiscus e.t.c, she has impacted a lot on students,youths too, her feminism has also open women to know what they ought to know.

ISTANDWITHBUHAR:



At the bold like what?

Kosy79:
Like women doesn't belong to kitchen, living room and other rooms.