DarkRebel69:
I read "Janelle Asked To The Room" some minutes ago and, well, I can't say that I understand the purpose of this bitter harangue. It's either the OP did not read the piece or that he read it and elected to give it an entirely different and exaggerated interpretation.

Where was the mockery of Melania's son?

This is the part where Adichie made mention of Barron (tell me what is inimical about this description):-

"Sometimes Barron came down to the gym during their sessions, sweetly shy and polite, dependent on his mother for his sense of self. There was a delicacy about him that reminded Janelle of her son."

(Even if she did mock Melania's autistic child (which she did not do), is it the business of the reader to apply himself to the moral aspects of a work of fiction? I don't think so.)

This is just Matthew effect at play here. If any unrecognized writer had written that piece, no one would care to give it a second look, but it's being hyped up beyond merit because Adichie authored it.

Frankly, the piece is barely above average. I found it rather gauche and stale, and even the occasionally piquant metaphors could not salvage the sinking ship. It is probably Mrs. Adichie's poorest work thus far.

I, for one dislike a writer making overt allusions to a public figure (just like the annoying thing Eminem does when he takes potshots at celebrities). In my eyes, such an act reeks of a poverty of creativity. Every good artist (writers, poets, etc.) knows that the subtler approaches usually have the most resounding impact.

See for instance what George Orwell did with Animal Farm. He could have just referred to Stalin and Leon Trotsky directly and the entire novel would be sure to numb the reader's senses with an unimaginative obviousness, but instead he took the long-winded albeit powerful route by choosing to give us porcine presentations of Stalin (Napoleon) and Trotsky (Snowball), and of course the ignorant and mindless proles (Boxer, Clover, the ducks, the sheep). And that is why Orwell remains my favourite writer of all time.

Like I said, I think you people are over-reacting.

Very well said

ogbonti:
I have long diagnosed liberalism as a mental illness.

This same Adichie, an unrepentant feminist, who keeps blasting her fatherland Nigeria at international fora, and insulting African men whenever she finds a microphone with about 20 people listening is a disgrace to herself and her family. . Let me not even glorify her stupidity by saying she is a disgrace to Africa.

According to Archiles, the ancient warrior who fought against the Trojans, he said and I quote


"there is a line of dishonorable intentions even sworn enemies must not cross"

... Adichie is busy demonizing and insulting a sick child, which Hillary who was on the ballot will not even do. I have not heard Michelle Obama insult the Trump family.

Typical naija American wannabe, you have a log of wood in your eyes but you are so desperate to remove the spec on your neighbor''s eyes. With all the rot and decadence in Nigeria, Adichie chooses to insult an accomplished family when her own people are dying daily from hunger and starvation from never ending recession. That's a classical narcissistic bigot.

Wether Adichie likes it or not, Trump will rule America for 8 years. She can take her gay loving, feminist self to Obama''s house for all I care. What a she goat of a woman!

Get sense na guy, Is she the cause of recession?? What power does she have that Prof Wole doesn't have x2 here. Prof has talked and talked, criticized the govt yet no change but you want her to come here just to satisfy your warped thinking. She's a disgrace to Africa?? u are okay up there at all?

Rosskii:


You are relentlessly dumb and ignorant. Racism against black Americans is REAL, you stupid wingbat. There have been countless studies which show the existence of deep structural racism against the US black population. From the preponderance of liquor stores in black neighbourhoods to the deliberate infusion of drugs and guns in their neighbourhoods, to police brutality, to sub-standard education compared to the majority, to racial bias in the criminal justice system. Go online and spend just TEN MINUTES to learn black American history, even though we know most of you Africans are allergic to research. Olodo.

Agentsmith002:
. the losers are the yorugba demons we keep on talking about.their hatred for anything Igbo will definitely fetch them the doom they seek for

Remove 9ja tribal sentiments from this discourse. We know it exists. BT don't bring it here.

She lives half of her life there, her husband is a citizen, her kids will eventually be affected by whatever decisions the president of that country makes. She pays her taxes to the US govt.

Does she have a right to write what she did? ABSOLUTELY. She's free to. Whether wrong or right, she is. That doesn't make her "stupid".

And before you start preaching and judging why she isn't using her talent to fight for NIGERIA, (which I think she has in her little way), ask yourself this question, HAVE YOU FOUGHT FOR NIGERIA in your own little way?
Before you cast stones.... Think.

SSBN:


Your opinion. A Nigerian fighting for racial justice by insulting the wife of the president in a country she's not a citizen, isn't this the epitome of stupidity?

Rosskii:
What a load of garbage. This ignorant, semi-literate attack on Adichie is only something one can see from a white worshipping, brainwashed, Nigerian goat. That is why many black Americans cannot stand Africans. Look at them kissing Trump's assss. Trump that refused to rent his apartments to blacks, that routinely attacks prominent blacks and non-whites. That supports neo-nazi white supremacists! You support him and his dumb wife despite all this, while claiming Obama did not visit Nigeria. What is worse, a president who is a racist hater of blacks or a black president who omitted Nigeria on his Africa trips? Stupid slave.s. And let me tell you this. Black Americans whom you insulted out of your ignorance and stupidity, are the reason you can visit or settle in America today as a black person. Their century long civil rights movement, which saw many of them killed and jailed in protests and agitation for black rights, are the reason YOU can prosper in the USA today, visit and take selfies there without getting lynched by white mobs. Even get high paying jobs there. Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Malcolm X. and many other black Americans GAVE THEIR LIVES for that to happen. Unlike you dumb, colonised African slaves who specialise in skin bleaching and kissing white ass, the black Americans are fighters, who do not tolerate racial injustice, and know they are the equal of any race on earth. So STFU and learn to show respect for their achievements.

Is it already Christmas?
I never knew you could make sense.

SSBN:


Your opinion. A Nigerian fighting for racial justice by insulting the wife of the president in a country she's not a citizen, isn't this the epitome of stupidity?

How do you know she is not a citizen? Isn't she married to an American?
And who told you that you cannot address racism when you live abroad?

The people who liked your comment are all id.iots for not using their brains.

Dedetwo:


Only semi-literate jackass refers human being as either "White or Black". The liberal wings of any society are most ignorant stock yet parade themselves as knowledgeable stiffs. There is only one race on earth and it is called human.

Really?
Explain that to Donald Trump and his KKK supporters.

JamesReacher:
Get sense na guy, Is she the cause of recession?? What power does she have that Prof Wole doesn't have x2 here. Prof has talked and talked, criticized the govt yet no change but you want her to come here just to satisfy your warped thinking. She's a disgrace to Africa?? u are okay up there at all?

Have you just said that Prof Wole had no impact?

Mindfulness:

Have you just said that Prof Wole had no impact?

Read again

Ishilove:

Thank God the bolded is STRICTLY your opinion.

I almost choked when i saw that.

Rosskii:


What does her citizenship status have to do with her right to speak her mind? She is not a self hating slave like you. She doesn't suffer from inferiority complex like you. She knows her rights and she will speak. When foreigners criticise Nigerian leaders do you ask them about their citizenship status?

your rights are nuance in a country you don't belong.
She should stf and turn back home. She want go destroy some other people done already built.

Mindfulness:


Is it already Christmas?
I never knew you could make sense.

Na so.

OMANBALA1:
Chimamanda is a deranged feminist who think she can say anything she want...I cant wait for US to deport that ffucking slowpoke. This girl actually think she is important just because the liberal Americans are feeding into her shitty writing. She worships Obama that killed Murman Ghadafi but hates Trump that told black Africa the truth they hate to hear,which is go fix your rotten country. When I become the governor of Anambra i will make sure she get locked up the day she stepped foot NA ANI OMANBALA.

Blunt, harsh, wicked but needed truth: "go fix your rotten country".

lastempero:
My own is that adichie should channel her voice to Nigeria her own country where she obtained her first degree,a lot of ill is going on here in Nigeria n she is busy lamenting on people that are far above Nigeria.charity they say should start from home not abroad.she is nt making any sense as long as iam concern.

Nigeria has not offered her anything.
You want her to come to Nigeria and start suffering politics of ethnicism. That would be stupid on her part.
You already have enough people in Nigeria that can do the Job.

Drogbs:
Lmao see this losers whining over the opinion of a woman who doesn't even know about your existence, calling her stupid yet her accomplishments dwarf the entire worth and net value/accomplishments of your family members put together with Jara sef...

Somehow you read that his "opinion" even if it was meant for Adichie. Her accomplishments doesn't in anyway preclude her from having "stupid" opinions about people she doesn't know.

Mindfulness:

Really? Explain that to Donald Trump and his KKK supporters.

I believe you have been brain hypo. who are the originators of KKK in USA ?

Racism is a natural thing, a reason to dislike other humans is something is something which we are always consciously and unconsciously on the look out for.

cstr1000:

Nigeria has not offered her anything.
You want her to come to Nigeria and start suffering politics of ethnicism. That would be stupid on her part.
You already have enough people in Nigeria that can do the Job.

For ur information Nigeria lay down the foundation for her,her first degree was here in Nigeria university of Nigeria to be precise.

Rosskii:


You are relentlessly dumb and ignorant. Racism against black Americans is REAL, you stupid wingbat. There have been countless studies which show the existence of deep structural racism against the US black population. From the preponderance of liquor stores in black neighbourhoods to the deliberate infusion of drugs and guns in their neighbourhoods, to police brutality, to sub-standard education compared to the majority, to racial bias in the criminal justice system. Go online and spend just TEN MINUTES to learn black American history, even though we know most of you Africans are allergic to research. Olodo.

don't mind the idiot, even if he's too lazy to do research, rihanna's american oxygen song says it all. The video portrays the struggles and victimizations the blacks have gone through in the States. Most black American celebs and even some white ones hate this fucking president. Yet, some fools gonna come here and be typing nonsense.

The OP is not very smart.
Like I said before on a separate thread, Race is everything in America. It got Obama and Trump elected.
Even chimamanda said during a BBC hard talk, that until she got to America she had no idea what racial politics is and its systemic entrenchment. Now she is more enlightened and exposed.
It would be foolishness to criticize when you have not walked in her shoes as a Black resident in America regardless of her status as one of America's leading female intellectual..
Race is everything in America. And everybody is talking about it from the smartest to the dumbest in America.

SSBN:


For give the types folks. Stupid us an understatement. She's a disgrace to her family.

She doesn't even know u exist n u re killing urself

lastempero:


For ur information Nigeria lay down the foundation for her,her first degree was here in Nigeria university of Nigeria to be precise.

which foundation?
So after her first degree, what else? How many millions of Nigerians have their first degrees and are roaming aimlessly in Nigeria.
She got out of Nigeria into a first world country and showed them her talent that would have been wasted in Nigeria.
Nigeria had zero impact on her success story.

Amanda all the way dear
Fully in support of you, u are given the men more than they can chew. Make them know that you can't sideline every female. For those hating, they are mostly male who are so filled with inferiority complex and low self esteem.
Keep up girl love ur charisma and courage.
Mhizsuzzy get ur back

But dear I no support u for gayism only ooh, cos that one na abnormality

let her write whatever she likes as long as it makes sense to lots and lots of people.

Some People re even saying blacks re more racist? like seriously. Uve heard of structural racism? No one screams white lives matter coz unless otherwise stated, the default preference is white. Silly Nigerians whar do u know

Hmmm

DarkRebel69:
I read "Janelle Asked To The Room" some minutes ago and, well, I can't say that I understand the purpose of this bitter harangue. It's either the OP did not read the piece or that he read it and elected to give it an entirely different and exaggerated interpretation.

Where was the mockery of Melania's son?

This is the part where Adichie made mention of Barron (tell me what is inimical about this description):-

"Sometimes Barron came down to the gym during their sessions, sweetly shy and polite, dependent on his mother for his sense of self. There was a delicacy about him that reminded Janelle of her son."

(Even if she did mock Melania's autistic child (which she did not do), is it the business of the reader to apply himself to the moral aspects of a work of fiction? I don't think so.)

This is just Matthew effect at play here. If any unrecognized writer had written that piece, no one would care to give it a second look, but it's being hyped up beyond merit because Adichie authored it.

Frankly, the piece is barely above average. I found it rather gauche and stale, and even the occasionally piquant metaphors could not salvage the sinking ship. It is probably Mrs. Adichie's poorest work thus far.

I, for one dislike a writer making overt allusions to a public figure (just like the annoying thing Eminem does when he takes potshots at celebrities). In my eyes, such an act reeks of a poverty of creativity. Every good artist (writers, poets, etc.) knows that the subtler approaches usually have the most resounding impact.

See for instance what George Orwell did with Animal Farm. He could have just referred to Stalin and Leon Trotsky directly and the entire novel would be sure to numb the reader's senses with an unimaginative obviousness, but instead he took the long-winded albeit powerful route by choosing to give us porcine presentations of Stalin (Napoleon) and Trotsky (Snowball), and of course the ignorant and mindless proles (Boxer, Clover, the ducks, the sheep). And that is why Orwell remains my favourite writer of all time.

Like I said, I think you people are over-reacting.

I never fail to admire dexterity in writing when I see it. I like how you write and the vivid adjectives you use to express your thoughts. By the way, Orwell's '1984' is my favorite work of literature till this very day. Genius doesn't even begin to describe his panache and his method and I try to model myself to write like him.

Orwell once said that when writing you should avoid words or phrases which one occasionally sees in print and other media. Basically he says "do away with cliches". So when you pointed out that Adichie's work was "rather gauche and stale, and even the occasionally piquant metaphors could not salvage the sinking ship", I couldn't help but chuckle to myself that she had violated Orwell's cardinal rule of writing.

That said you write really well.... are you a writer by profession or do you do write as a pastime?

cstr1000:

which foundation?
So after her first degree, what else? How many millions of Nigerians have their first degrees and are roaming aimlessly in Nigeria.
She got out of Nigeria into a first world country and showed them her talent that would have been wasted in Nigeria.
Nigeria had zero impact on her success story.

She did her 1st degree outside and not Nigeria
She was influenced growing up by her parents mostly her dad cos she is a daddy's girl.
She understands feminism not by reading but by watching market women at Nsukka.
She grew up watching preferential treatment given to male not for their qualification but for sex as in breaking kolanut. Her novels are strictly from her Enugu experience and stories her mum told her.
Should I continue....
So pls get ur facts right..............

mhizsuzzy:


She did her 1st degree outside and not Nigeria
She was influenced growing up by her parents mostly her dad cos she is a daddy's girl.
She understands feminism not by reading but by watching market women at Nsukka.
She grew up watching preferential treatment given to male not for their qualification but for sex as in breaking kolanut. Her novels are strictly from her Enugu experience and stories her mum told her.
Should I continue....
So pls get ur facts right..............

I am not the one you should be quoting.
How does this your epistle change anything? Did the market women at Nsukka made her popular or gave her the global platform?

Exclusive32:

I believe you have been brain hypo. who are the originators of KKK in USA ?

Go and tell me and while you are at it, also explain how this question is relevant.

JamesReacher:
Read again

I read and think you didn't make sense.

mhizsuzzy:


She did her 1st degree outside and not Nigeria
She was influenced growing up by her parents mostly her dad cos she is a daddy's girl.
She understands feminism not by reading but by watching market women at Nsukka.
She grew up watching preferential treatment given to male not for their qualification but for sex as in breaking kolanut. Her novels are strictly from her Enugu experience and stories her mum told her.
Should I continue....
So pls get ur facts right..............

So what? She is still free to choose where she wants to live and what to write.