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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.

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

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?

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

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 too good care of their own that you found it desirable to go and live in?

ccffwx:
Adichie hit the truths that humanity has been running from. We know it but don't say it and don't address it.

Detoni:
send me ur email address...I have d e-copy

donikky:
Ladies,I want us to learn from this book..At first,when I read the book I blamed Maje buh after sitting for a while I concluded that Maje isn't the only one to be blamed... From what she wrote,she was a nagging girlfriend and wife always wanting to know her man's step,she didn't do things that'd make d guy love her(apart from the bleaching),all she cared about was d girl he was involved with...Though, its normal to feel bad when your guy cheats on yhu buh I think instead of flaring up at everything,she should try to study the guy and know what he really wants in ladies,From that book, Maje never loved Toke,He married her outta pity,Why won't Maje love Anita when he broke her virginity(the best gift) and she was always there for him to the extent of doing his project for him..abeg which guy no go like DAT kind lady.
Every guy wants a Lady that would understand him,there are some things you'll know buh you jez have to pretend you don't. Maje didn't love her,she saw DAT buh because she was blinded by love she still went on with the guy thinking he would come to love her. Ladies please be careful when choosing your life partner,marriage is a mistake that can cause a stigma in one's life forever,A school one never graduate from,choose wisely!

lestat:
Toke has a book? Okay moving on, couldn't read it when I saw Toke's name in the title.. I dunno much about her other than the facr she works in radio? So I couldn't care less if she died right now, talk less of reading bout her book