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Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lashes Out At Donald Trump And Americans In Her Article by sunnyeinstein(m): 7:39am On Dec 10, 2016
Tallesty1:
My problem with feminists is that when they contest in something and lose to men, they automatically conclude that they lost because they're women.

I was talking with one the other day and she said that a woman cannot become president in Nigeria because Nigeria men hate women and I asked.

"Are Igbos women? Why is it difficult for them to become president in Nigeria?"

It's simple, they don't plan well.

Clinton lost because Trump did something better.

Adichie should stop wailing and return home if she isn't comfortable with Trump being American president.

You're there blowing grammar when the old man you stupid folks foisted on us has rendered the economy useless.

Poor man can no longer afford garri and sugar.

Many people won't travel home this xmass because they're broke but the only thing disturbing you is American's choice of president.

How is it your business?

Clinton Lost, Trump won, deal with it or die crying.


International Wailer

It baffles me how these so-called intellectuals hate Nigeria, going all american on us. Until we learn to make our problem ours we wont find a solution to the rot we've put ourselves into.
People should go and read about the great depression and cultural+moral shift in china in d 1970s, they looked at their problems, realised only they can solve it (international help will continue to keep us in more debt), their patriots returned home, all their policies were geared towards rebounding all local products n services while providing adequates pallatives throughout that period of national rebirth... we all see d end-result today- even since d late 90's.
We need somtin similar in nigeria, ot pple running away to america and claiming american in anoda man's land. Come back home and let's all rebuild it, foolish people.

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Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lashes Out At Donald Trump And Americans In Her Article by ezeagu(m): 7:39am On Dec 10, 2016
Buhari has led to thousands more deaths than Trump has had the chance to.
Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lashes Out At Donald Trump And Americans In Her Article by Nobody: 7:41am On Dec 10, 2016
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Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lashes Out At Donald Trump And Americans In Her Article by Mujaheeeden: 7:43am On Dec 10, 2016
Alhajipablo:
The whites have always been shallow, it takes the deep to call on the deep or something like that. It took a stupid Man like Trump to bring out the stupidity in white Americans.
Same in Nigeria
Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lashes Out At Donald Trump And Americans In Her Article by Tallesty1(m): 7:43am On Dec 10, 2016
LorDBolton:


You deserve a bottle of wine, nothing irks me like feminism cos I don't know what they're even fighting for.
They don't know what they are fighting for and that is why woman A's feminism is different from woman B's feminism.

They often disagree with each other even here which makes me wonder what the noise is all about.


Funny enough it is only where the real feminist ideas have been achieved that this misguided people hide to complain.

You don't see them clamour for women rights in Saudi or even Northern Nigeria.

I expected Adichie to sit down and ask herself why America that always praise Africans for electing female leaders and call it victory for feminist voted massively against a woman when their turn to practice what they preach came.

But she's busy hating on Trump who's done no harm.
Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lashes Out At Donald Trump And Americans In Her Article by monimekaz(m): 7:45am On Dec 10, 2016
She should come to her country and start her charity from home .All these literary cowards .The other day,I couldn't believe Soyinka change the tune of his song towards Buhari ,then immediately I believed what OBJ said about him and wine in The Watch
Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lashes Out At Donald Trump And Americans In Her Article by sunnyeinstein(m): 7:48am On Dec 10, 2016
Chiefpriest1:
Nice one.Still can't wrap my head around a Trump Presidency.

Like Adichie said, the man is pathologically unstable. A man who talks before thinking can only be a destabilising factor.

The next four years will be tough for America and Americans. Some hard truths in this beautiful piece



This post answers ur delusional, demential and myopic statement

AnonyNymous:
I'm sorry, but I don't agree with Chimamanda. Everything she wrote there can be summarized as saying the right wing is completely full of White Sipremacists. Which is absolutely wrong.
OK, why did Donald Trump choose Dr. Ben Carson as Secretary (Minister) of Housing and Urban Development? There's even a Nigerian in his economic team. The Republican party is diverse. Surely not as diverse as the Democratic Party, but it has its own fair share of diversity.
Not all right wingers are part of the alt-right. Although Donald Trump can be said to be the champion of 'alt-right' ideologies including populism and nationalism, what you have to understand is that the majority of people who supported Trump did so grudgingly- to vote against Hilary Clinton.
Clinton's dirty laundry has been continuously exposed in the media up until this election, with Obama even 'finishing' her in the debates. Talking about how she was getting fatter on Walmart Capitalist money while he was being a community volunteer. They've said so many things about her that have effectively shown how she was unfit, and the nail in the coffin was the email scandal. And after all that, the Democrats decided that SHE was the person fit to run against a man who was running on the waves of populism, a very attractive ideology to people who were fed up with Obama's government.
Charisma on Command explained it very simply. She didn't have the 'energy' and was never convincing enough. Trump came along with the idea of being an outsider. She immediately tried to switch, by calling herself an 'outsider' (which every idiot knows is not true) because she was a woman. Obama, on the other hand, while campaigning for her, turned the question around, saying 'You want experienced doctors to treat you, experienced engineers to build your houses. Why then do you want an 'outsider' to lead you?'
Clinton just wasn't fit. Period. Another candidate would've been better. Only a very small percentage of Trump supporters believe everything he says. The rest just have so much disdain for Clinton.
Trump's appointees aren't too discouraging either. He's appointing good brains in his cabinet. Some people claim that he's just appointing 'rich' people, but those are the people he knows how to work with. And because of his arrogant nature, he's so scared of failure that HE'S ACTUALLY TAKING ADVICE. You can see that reflected in his appointment of 'Mad Dog Mattis' as Secretary of Defence. Frankly, Obama's Secretaries of Defence didn't know what they were doing. He appointed 4 different ones over his two terms. This man, General Mattis, however, is very popular with the army. The soldiers have confidence in the government now, because they described Mattis as 'A man who knows what wars to avoid, but isn't afraid to fight back'.

All these are just speculation anyway. Let's see what happens in the end.

**As others have rightly said too, why hasn't she been writing long articles about Nigeria? Why hasn't she been actively using her influence to change the mindset of Nigerian Youths?

God bless u my broda, i hav been following trump since d early primaries and yes, he rode tru via populism, nationalism and d clinton-hate, but dis man has shown he does have brain and brainy pple arnd him as seen with his appointments. I say America will see internal growth like they've not witnessed since d 1st crash of wall street
Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lashes Out At Donald Trump And Americans In Her Article by Nobody: 7:48am On Dec 10, 2016
sollybaby:

are you through?
undecided
Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lashes Out At Donald Trump And Americans In Her Article by jneutron4000: 7:52am On Dec 10, 2016
MarshRiley:
You are a Nigerian,how many articles have you written about corruption,insurgency and the high rate of poverty in Nigeria?because you are previledged you are there making noise in another man's country,come to Nigeria and let's build our country together,leave oyinbo with him land,you follow them fight for independence?
dont mind some Nigerians, they too like busy body

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Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lashes Out At Donald Trump And Americans In Her Article by bigtt76(f): 7:53am On Dec 10, 2016
Better tear your green card like Uncle said he did and come back home joooooor! grin
Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lashes Out At Donald Trump And Americans In Her Article by Nobody: 7:59am On Dec 10, 2016
xnsandrxns:
Maybe Americans are not so smart as we thought
Maybe they've just been waiting for someone to champion their shallowness
Let's see how things unfold
Let's hope they've not elected their own version of Buhari
Someone being propelled by hatred
If you want to wait and see how things unfold, why then do you judge them saying they are shallow.
I actually hate it when people compare Trump to Buhari; both are miles different from each other.
Okay, if I may ask, what about Buhari's person can liken to be that of Mr Trump? What do you think they both do similarly? Let me put it this way: Buhari no sabi anthing!
At least, now in America, people can freely say MEERY CHRISTMAS..
If the Adichie woman takes her time and energy to criticize Buhari's govt., maybe we would have seen few changes. For all I know, na nonsense she write. An Average American knows that Obama goes down as the worst president in history.

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Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lashes Out At Donald Trump And Americans In Her Article by Nobody: 7:59am On Dec 10, 2016
AnonyNymous:
I'm sorry, but I don't agree with Chimamanda. Everything she wrote there can be summarized as saying the right wing is completely full of White Sipremacists. Which is absolutely wrong.
OK, why did Donald Trump choose Dr. Ben Carson as Secretary (Minister) of Housing and Urban Development? There's even a Nigerian in his economic team. The Republican party is diverse. Surely not as diverse as the Democratic Party, but it has its own fair share of diversity.
Not all right wingers are part of the alt-right. Although Donald Trump can be said to be the champion of 'alt-right' ideologies including populism and nationalism, what you have to understand is that the majority of people who supported Trump did so grudgingly- to vote against Hilary Clinton.
Clinton's dirty laundry has been continuously exposed in the media up until this election, with Obama even 'finishing' her in the debates. Talking about how she was getting fatter on Walmart Capitalist money while he was being a community volunteer. They've said so many things about her that have effectively shown how she was unfit, and the nail in the coffin was the email scandal. And after all that, the Democrats decided that SHE was the person fit to run against a man who was running on the waves of populism, a very attractive ideology to people who were fed up with Obama's government.
Charisma on Command explained it very simply. She didn't have the 'energy' and was never convincing enough. Trump came along with the idea of being an outsider. She immediately tried to switch, by calling herself an 'outsider' (which every idiot knows is not true) because she was a woman. Obama, on the other hand, while campaigning for her, turned the question around, saying 'You want experienced doctors to treat you, experienced engineers to build your houses. Why then do you want an 'outsider' to lead you?'
Clinton just wasn't fit. Period. Another candidate would've been better. Only a very small percentage of Trump supporters believe everything he says. The rest just have so much disdain for Clinton.
Trump's appointees aren't too discouraging either. He's appointing good brains in his cabinet. Some people claim that he's just appointing 'rich' people, but those are the people he knows how to work with. And because of his arrogant nature, he's so scared of failure that HE'S ACTUALLY TAKING ADVICE. You can see that reflected in his appointment of 'Mad Dog Mattis' as Secretary of Defence. Frankly, Obama's Secretaries of Defence didn't know what they were doing. He appointed 4 different ones over his two terms. This man, General Mattis, however, is very popular with the army. The soldiers have confidence in the government now, because they described Mattis as 'A man who knows what wars to avoid, but isn't afraid to fight back'.

All these are just speculation anyway. Let's see what happens in the end.

**As others have rightly said too, why hasn't she been writing long articles about Nigeria? Why hasn't she been actively using her influence to change the mindset of Nigerian Youths?

I should conclude that foreigners on a mission have infiltrated this platform. One may not a soothsayer ti know that you're not a Nigerian.

As for Adichie, she should leave America like Soyinka did. Her country is in ruin, and she keeps brandishing useless grammar upandan.

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Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lashes Out At Donald Trump And Americans In Her Article by phoenix90(m): 7:59am On Dec 10, 2016
AnonyNymous:
I'm sorry, but I don't agree with Chimamanda. Everything she wrote there can be summarized as others have rightly said too, why hasn't she been writing long articles about Nigeria? Why hasn't she been actively using her influence to change the mindset of Nigerian Youths?
The young lady is just being sentimental. I wonder why she just takes the American polity as her war-turf. Americans voted to make their country great. She isn't living up to certain ideals that the Nigerian youth can proudly see worthy of emulation. She champions feminism and LGBT tolerance like one who's out of touch with the realities of her background. Abeg leave dat geh, all these writers seeking cheap attention. Make she follow Grandpa Soyinka dey mumu for dia

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Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lashes Out At Donald Trump And Americans In Her Article by bluaero(m): 8:04am On Dec 10, 2016
This biatch again?

Madam kindly point a gun on ur head and do the needful.
Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lashes Out At Donald Trump And Americans In Her Article by Amenphx: 8:06am On Dec 10, 2016
Adichie if I may ask what does Obama your soo called black do for the development and well being of Nigeria (the most populous black nation on earth) and our Politics?.
Divepen1:
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
On December 2 The NewYorker published an article by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie , the Author of three Novels, which intricately requests that people should open their eyes to racism and feminism. She expressed her anger at the way the Americans treated Obama during his time as the President. Below is the full article.
NOW IS THE TIME TO TALK ABOUT WHAT WE ARE ACTUALLY TALKING ABOUT
"America has always been aspirational to me. Even when I chafed at its hypocrisies, it somehow always seemed sure, a nation that knew what it was doing, refreshingly free of that anything-can-happen existential uncertainty so familiar to developing nations. But no longer. The election of Donald Trump has flattened the poetry in America’s founding philosophy: the country born from an idea of freedom is to be governed by an unstable, stubbornly uninformed, authoritarian demagogue. And in response to this there are people living in visceral fear, people anxiously trying to discern policy from bluster, and people kowtowing as though to a new king. Things that were recently pushed to the corners of America’s political space—overt racism, glaring misogyny, anti-intellectualism—are once again creeping to the center.
Now is the time to resist the slightest extension in the boundaries of what is right and just. Now is the time to speak up and to wear as a badge of honor the opprobrium of bigots. Now is the time to confront the weak core at the heart of America’s addiction to optimism; it allows too little room for resilience, and too much for fragility. Hazy visions of “healing” and “not becoming the hate we hate” sound dangerously like appeasement. The responsibility to forge unity belongs not to the denigrated but to the denigrators. The premise for empathy has to be equal humanity; it is an injustice to demand that the maligned identify with those who question their humanity.
America loves winners, but victory does not absolve. Victory, especially a slender one decided by a few thousand votes in a handful of states, does not guarantee respect. Nobody automatically deserves deference on ascending to the leadership of any country. American journalists know this only too well when reporting on foreign leaders—their default mode with Africans, for instance, is nearly always barely concealed disdain. President Obama endured disrespect from all quarters. By far the most egregious insult directed toward him, the racist movement tamely termed “birtherism,” was championed by Trump.
Yet, a day after the election, I heard a journalist on the radio speak of the vitriol between Obama and Trump. No, the vitriol was Trump’s. Now is the time to burn false equivalencies forever. Pretending that both sides of an issue are equal when they are not is not “balanced” journalism; it is a fairy tale—and, unlike most fairy tales, a disingenuous one.
Now is the time to refuse the blurring of memory. Each mention of “gridlock” under Obama must be wrought in truth: that “gridlock” was a deliberate and systematic refusal of the Republican Congress to work with him. Now is the time to call things what they actually are, because language can illuminate truth as much as it can obfuscate it. Now is the time to forge new words. “Alt-right” is benign. “White-supremacist right” is more accurate.
Now is the time to talk about what we are actually talking about. “Climate contrarian” obfuscates. “Climate-change denier” does not. And because climate change is scientific fact, not opinion, this matters.
Now is the time to discard that carefulness that too closely resembles a lack of conviction. The election is not a “simple racism story,” because no racism story is ever a “simple” racism story, in which grinning evil people wearing white burn crosses in yards. A racism story is complicated, but it is still a racism story, and it is worth parsing. Now is not the time to tiptoe around historical references. Recalling Nazism is not extreme; it is the astute response of those who know that history gives both context and warning.
Now is the time to recalibrate the default assumptions of American political discourse. Identity politics is not the sole preserve of minority voters. This election is a reminder that identity politics in America is a white invention: it was the basis of segregation. The denial of civil rights to black Americans had at its core the idea that a black American should not be allowed to vote because that black American was not white. The endless questioning, before the election of Obama, about America’s “readiness” for a black President was a reaction to white identity politics. Yet “identity politics” has come to be associated with minorities, and often with a patronizing undercurrent, as though to refer to nonwhite people motivated by an irrational herd instinct. White Americans have practiced identity politics since the inception of America, but it is now laid bare, impossible to evade.
Now is the time for the media, on the left and right, to educate and inform. To be nimble and alert, clear-eyed and skeptical, active rather than reactive. To make clear choices about what truly matters.
Now is the time to put the idea of the “liberal bubble” to rest. The reality of American tribalism is that different groups all live in bubbles. Now is the time to acknowledge the ways in which Democrats have condescended to the white working class—and to acknowledge that Trump condescends to it by selling it fantasies. Now is the time to remember that there are working-class Americans who are not white and who have suffered the same deprivations and are equally worthy of news profiles. Now is the time to remember that “women” does not equal white women. “Women” must mean all women.
Now is the time to elevate the art of questioning. Is the only valid resentment in America that of white males? If we are to be sympathetic to the idea that economic anxieties lead to questionable decisions, does this apply to all groups? Who exactly are the élite?
Now is the time to frame the questions differently. If everything remained the same, and Hillary Clinton were a man, would she still engender an overheated, outsized hostility? Would a woman who behaved exactly like Trump be elected? Now is the time to stop suggesting that sexism was absent in the election because white women did not overwhelmingly vote for Clinton. Misogyny is not the sole preserve of men.
The case for women is not that they are inherently better or more moral. It is that they are half of humanity and should have the same opportunities—and be judged according to the same standards—as the other half. Clinton was expected to be perfect, according to contradictory standards, in an election that became a referendum on her likability.
Now is the time to ask why America is far behind many other countries (see: Rwanda) in its representation of women in politics. Now is the time to explore mainstream attitudes toward women’s ambition, to ponder to what extent the ordinary political calculations that all politicians make translate as moral failures when we see them in women. Clinton’s careful calibration was read as deviousness. But would a male politician who is carefully calibrated—Mitt Romney, for example—merely read as carefully calibrated?
Now is the time to be precise about the meanings of words. Trump saying “They let you do it” about assaulting women does not imply consent, because consent is what happens before an act.
Now is the time to remember that, in a wave of dark populism sweeping the West, there are alternative forms. Bernie Sanders’s message did not scapegoat the vulnerable. Obama rode a populist wave before his first election, one marked by a remarkable inclusiveness. Now is the time to counter lies with facts, repeatedly and unflaggingly, while also proclaiming the greater truths: of our equal humanity, of decency, of compassion. Every precious ideal must be reiterated, every obvious argument made, because an ugly idea left unchallenged begins to turn the color of normal. It does not have to be like this.

What do you think.


https://olofoforeview./2016/12/08/now-is-the-time-to-talk-about-what-we-are-actually-talking-about-by-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie/
Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lashes Out At Donald Trump And Americans In Her Article by Nobody: 8:09am On Dec 10, 2016
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Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lashes Out At Donald Trump And Americans In Her Article by gesundheit: 8:11am On Dec 10, 2016
sunnyeinstein:


This post answers ur delusional, demential and myopic statement



God bless u my broda, i hav been following trump since d early primaries and yes, he rode tru via populism, nationalism and d clinton-hate, but dis man has shown he does have brain and brainy pple arnd him as seen with his appointments. I say America will see internal growth like they've not witnessed since d 1st crash of wall street

Your stupidity is breath taking, with appointment of bigots like Steve bannon, James session and Peter Flynn who are known bigots. With the senseless Twitter feeds from the waste of space. Drumpf have missed 17 of 20 intelligence briefings but keep tabs on SNL. Americans just made An ignorant simmpleton as POTUS.

While the brightest Nigerians i.e chimanda, soyinka et al can see through the right issues, the brain dead internet Lord need life long education to even get a grasp of the happening.
Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lashes Out At Donald Trump And Americans In Her Article by Amenphx: 8:12am On Dec 10, 2016
phoenix90:

The young lady is just being sentimental. I wonder why she just takes the American polity as her war-turf. Americans voted to make their country great. She isn't living up to certain ideals that the Nigerian youth can proudly see worthy of emulation. She champions feminism and LGBT tolerance like one who's out of touch with the realities of her background. Abeg leave dat geh, all these writers seeking cheap attention. Make she follow Grandpa Soyinka dey mumu for dia
Don't worry my dear Trump (the slayer of the grate Clinton family. Hahahahaha) will definitely show her the exit door when the right time comes.

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Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lashes Out At Donald Trump And Americans In Her Article by ganjaman: 8:13am On Dec 10, 2016
Abeg Chidinma shut ur trap and comeback to ur roots.U are still enjoying the freedom by going to the Newyork Times to criticise the President elect be careful! Cry all u want like ur fellow Wole its insignificant. Come naija make we develop am like America mtchewwww!
Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lashes Out At Donald Trump And Americans In Her Article by Cityguy: 8:18am On Dec 10, 2016
mployer:
I don't care about This article.
A visitor can't tell house owners how to live in it.
Truth!
Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lashes Out At Donald Trump And Americans In Her Article by sunnyeinstein(m): 8:21am On Dec 10, 2016
gesundheit:


Your stupidity is breath taking, with appointment of bigots like Steve bannon, James session and Peter Flynn who are known bigots. With the senseless Twitter feeds from the waste of space. Drumpf have missed 17 of 20 intelligence briefings but keep tabs on SNL. Americans just made An ignorant simmpleton as POTUS.

While the brightest Nigerians i.e chimanda, soyinka et al can see through the right issues, the brain dead internet Lord need life long education to even get a grasp of the happening.

Bros, kill urself with d deception. D real thing starts January 20 or diarabout.

The crux of d mata is dat our so-called intellectual minds havnt written one single article about d rot happening in nigeria but r busy trumpeting america like that's wia d poverty-stricken nigeria will find her solution. We are her solution, and d earlier we recognise dat, come home and fight her war and hopefully win,d better.

Think Nigeria, act Nigeria.

Thank you.

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Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lashes Out At Donald Trump And Americans In Her Article by legendte(m): 8:22am On Dec 10, 2016
Tallesty1:
My problem with feminists is that when they contest in something and lose to men, they automatically conclude that they lost because they're women.

I was talking with one the other day and she said that a woman cannot become president in Nigeria because Nigeria men hate women and I asked.

"Are Igbos women? Why is it difficult for them to become president in Nigeria?"

It's simple, they don't plan well.

Clinton lost because Trump did something better.

Adichie should stop wailing and return home if she isn't comfortable with Trump being American president.

You're there blowing grammar when the old man you stupid folks foisted on us has rendered the economy useless.

Poor man can no longer afford garri and sugar.

Many people won't travel home this xmass because they're broke but the only thing disturbing you is American's choice of president.

How is it your business?

Clinton Lost, Trump won, deal with it or die crying.


International Wailer
Afonja! What has Igbo got to do with the writeup?
Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lashes Out At Donald Trump And Americans In Her Article by Tallesty1(m): 8:31am On Dec 10, 2016
legendte:

Afonja! What has Igbo got to do with the writeup?
Wetuo obi nwannem, abu'm onye igbo karia gi.



Inu?
Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lashes Out At Donald Trump And Americans In Her Article by gesundheit: 8:32am On Dec 10, 2016
sunnyeinstein:


Bros, kill urself with d deception. D real thing starts January 20 or diarabout.

The crux of d mata is dat our so-called intellectual minds havnt written one single article about d rot happening in nigeria but r busy trumpeting america like that's wia d poverty-stricken nigeria will find her solution. We are her solution, and d earlier we recognise dat, come home and fight her war and hopefully win,d better.

Think Nigeria, act Nigeria.

Thank you.

I don't jawjaw with si..mpleton, go and learn how to write in English language first.
Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lashes Out At Donald Trump And Americans In Her Article by Tallesty1(m): 8:34am On Dec 10, 2016
sunnyeinstein:


It baffles me how these so-called intellectuals hate Nigeria, going all american on us. Until we learn to make our problem ours we wont find a solution to the rot we've put ourselves into.
People should go and read about the great depression and cultural+moral shift in china in d 1970s, they looked at their problems, realised only they can solve it (international help will continue to keep us in more debt), their patriots returned home, all their policies were geared towards rebounding all local products n services while providing adequates pallatives throughout that period of national rebirth... we all see d end-result today- even since d late 90's.
We need somtin similar in nigeria, ot pple running away to america and claiming american in anoda man's land. Come back home and let's all rebuild it, foolish people.
lol.


That's never gonna happen in Nigeria.


3 can only work together if they agree.

The only time Nigerians come together is to share looted funds.

Unlike China, we are made up of 3 major tribes that do not like each other.

That's just us as a people, I ain't talking about religion yet.
Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lashes Out At Donald Trump And Americans In Her Article by KingRex1(m): 8:35am On Dec 10, 2016
Adichie should go and sit down.. Better still go back to nsukka.
Trump hasn't started his tenure and she's already rebuking. Ma'am abeg deal with his victory.

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Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lashes Out At Donald Trump And Americans In Her Article by sunnyeinstein(m): 8:36am On Dec 10, 2016
gesundheit:


I don't jawjaw with si..mpleton, go and learn how to write in English language first.

Well, dis simpleton doesnt need a lesson in english, only patriotism and how i can channel it to contribute my quota to improve MY COUNTRY, MOTHERLAND AND FATHERLAND, NIGERIA.

Thank you

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Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lashes Out At Donald Trump And Americans In Her Article by Nobody: 8:40am On Dec 10, 2016
AnonyNymous:
I'm sorry, but I don't agree with Chimamanda. Everything she wrote there can be summarized as saying the right wing is completely full of White Sipremacists. Which is absolutely wrong.
OK, why did Donald Trump choose Dr. Ben Carson as Secretary (Minister) of Housing and Urban Development? There's even a Nigerian in his economic team. The Republican party is diverse. Surely not as diverse as the Democratic Party, but it has its own fair share of diversity.
Not all right wingers are part of the alt-right. Although Donald Trump can be said to be the champion of 'alt-right' ideologies including populism and nationalism, what you have to understand is that the majority of people who supported Trump did so grudgingly- to vote against Hilary Clinton.
Clinton's dirty laundry has been continuously exposed in the media up until this election, with Obama even 'finishing' her in the debates. Talking about how she was getting fatter on Walmart Capitalist money while he was being a community volunteer. They've said so many things about her that have effectively shown how she was unfit, and the nail in the coffin was the email scandal. And after all that, the Democrats decided that SHE was the person fit to run against a man who was running on the waves of populism, a very attractive ideology to people who were fed up with Obama's government.
Charisma on Command explained it very simply. She didn't have the 'energy' and was never convincing enough. Trump came along with the idea of being an outsider. She immediately tried to switch, by calling herself an 'outsider' (which every idiot knows is not true) because she was a woman. Obama, on the other hand, while campaigning for her, turned the question around, saying 'You want experienced doctors to treat you, experienced engineers to build your houses. Why then do you want an 'outsider' to lead you?'
Clinton just wasn't fit. Period. Another candidate would've been better. Only a very small percentage of Trump supporters believe everything he says. The rest just have so much disdain for Clinton.
Trump's appointees aren't too discouraging either. He's appointing good brains in his cabinet. Some people claim that he's just appointing 'rich' people, but those are the people he knows how to work with. And because of his arrogant nature, he's so scared of failure that HE'S ACTUALLY TAKING ADVICE. You can see that reflected in his appointment of 'Mad Dog Mattis' as Secretary of Defence. Frankly, Obama's Secretaries of Defence didn't know what they were doing. He appointed 4 different ones over his two terms. This man, General Mattis, however, is very popular with the army. The soldiers have confidence in the government now, because they described Mattis as 'A man who knows what wars to avoid, but isn't afraid to fight back'.

All these are just speculation anyway. Let's see what happens in the end.

**As others have rightly said too, why hasn't she been writing long articles about Nigeria? Why hasn't she been actively using her influence to change the mindset of Nigerian Youths?
Beautiful piece. I admire Adichie's charisma, but she got it wrong here. Trump may end up becoming the best, after Roosevelt, against all speculation..... only time will tell
Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lashes Out At Donald Trump And Americans In Her Article by Nobody: 8:42am On Dec 10, 2016
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Wow.this may stir some controversies.

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Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lashes Out At Donald Trump And Americans In Her Article by Zedoo(m): 8:46am On Dec 10, 2016
Who you epp??
What have you said about your own country where your cousins and relatives are currently languishing....

Oh achebe....despite all your examples....
Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lashes Out At Donald Trump And Americans In Her Article by Zedoo(m): 8:47am On Dec 10, 2016
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Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lashes Out At Donald Trump And Americans In Her Article by nwamehn: 8:51am On Dec 10, 2016
thesicilian:
Nigerians should leave Americans alone to govern themselves the way they like. You'll leave your country in tatters and go and be blowing grammar in another man's country. Is it not because they took good care of their own that you found it desirable to go and live in?

I wonder o. Nigeria is in a mess and a Nigerian spends all her time worrying about the future of America?
She even confirmed that white women didn't largely vote for Clinton yet she claims the election was characterised with sexism.
She also loves Clinton much more than Clinton's fellow white women that didn't vote for her in numbers?

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