Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Writes:
“I am Nigerian because a white man created Nigeria and gave me that identity.
I am black because the white man constructed black to be as different as possible from his white.
But, I was Igbo/Biafran before the white man came.

My identity and culture is Biafran

I guess she is also jobless

I love her books o... but this one she said is her business...

The word biafra did not exist in Africa before the arrival of the white man.
Nobody was a biafran before the coming of the white man and I doubt if Chimamanda actually said that.

You call her jobless because such a good scholar, a good writer and perfectionist like her can never come out of yuroba-muslim afonja people

No one will hate this statement except he/she intentionally choose to misunderstand

She's proudly a Biafran

Its in our blood. you can't hide us. We are like grass........clear, uproot us and see us grow back. Biafra or nothing

In other words, she's proud of her culture!
Noted!

Candid. She's only making the point on what comes first.
Great poeple are those who don't shy away from speaking their minds no matter what...and she's saying the hard truth...i think until all ethnic groups agree on what union "Nigeria" should be there'll be no real progress.

Great woman!

I'm from these world . I.e I'm a human

A great Biafrian is chimamanda

Ofcuz u are.

God bless u chi

She just said her mind.

If u r not comfortable with that...

U can go die or hug transformer or drink snipper or hang urself on d tree or on pawpaw. But just make sure u do something.

Guys my black goat don los.
Who help me see am

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Nice

This is not from Chimamanda, She never said this.

it is a line in her novel titled "half a yellow sun". This was said by Odenigbo in the novel.


I'm not anti-biafra.... I know Nigeria isn't working but no nation stands on the foundation of falsehood.

Guestlander:
The word biafra did not exist in Africa before the arrival of the white man.
Nobody was a biafran before the coming of the white man and I doubt if Chimamanda actually said that.

chinamanda is brilliant than that.What existed before white came was igbo not biafra

eyescue:
You call her jobless because such a good scholar, a good writer and perfectionist like her can never come out of yuroba-muslim afonja people

yIGBOs and inferiority complex to yorubas are

She woul be foolish if not cruel to make the statements attributed to her and I doubt she did, so please stop lying. She has young readers all over Nigeria,many of them women and girls that find her inspiring. I doubt she would alienate so many of these young people,which is the very thing the statement attributed to her above achieves since the Biafra movement, currently, has its foundation in the language of hate and bigotry against other none Igbo Nigerians.

Litmus:
She woul be foolish if not cruel to make the statements attributed to her and I doubt she did, so please stop lying. She has young readers all over Nigeria,many of them young women and girls that find her inspiring. I doubt she would alienate so many of these young people,which is the very thing the statement attributed to her above achieves since the Biafra movement currently has its foundation in the language of hate and bigotry against other none Igbo Nigerians.

She didn't. Odenigbo said those words in the adaption of 'Half of a Yellow Sun'.

Mynd44, your attention is needed here, please.

Guestlander:
The word biafra did not exist in Africa before the arrival of the white man.
Nobody was a biafran before the coming of the white man and I doubt if Chimamanda actually said that.

my guy why naa ?

have you not heard about the BIGHT OF BIAFRA?

Anyway how can you know when you were born and bred in that NOMADIC ENCLAVE?

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