Christiana

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1,364 appearances 23 recordings 1 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard Jun 2025

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What Now? with Trevor Noah · The Reality of Fiction with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 20 Mar 2025 podcast

She's a real Igbo woman.

Wait, what? That's how Christiana... I'd love to tell the story. It's crazy. When Trevor first got his job at The Daily Show, he had a guest on that I didn't agree with, that I thought he shouldn't have had it. I stand by that. Does this guest have a name, perhaps? Yeah, Tommy Loren. Yeah. And it was like a super viral interview and there was lots of reactions. And... Credit to Trevor.

He came across tweets where I was critical of him in a very respectful way, I think. I was kind of... How you were critical? Not critical. I was just discussing... Oh, yeah. I was discussing the fact that he'd had this guest on his show. And because he disagreed with me, he followed me. He was just like, I don't think she's right.

Because he stands by why he had the interview, which I love about him. And someone reached out to me and was like, oh, Trevor Noah's a fan. What have you thought about working at the show? And the Nigerian in me was like, ah, this man is trying to trick me. Tell me off. That's the first thing I told my parents. I was like, I've got this email.

I think this man is trying to trick me and he's holding a grudge because I said he shouldn't have that girl. But there was like that. But I see why, though. But we engaged in a few conversations where he was like, you know, you've made me think I don't necessarily agree. We had a few exchanges, not disrespectful ones, but like Trevor's very kumbaya.

But I'm a child of Biafra, so I always want to fight. So there is that. I think there's that. Not tension, but we bring different things to.

Well, I came to America in 2014 and I say this a lot and maybe I'm coming from like a Western lens of being in the UK and communicating with my friends in the UK. I think in the UK also people are wearing their politics more or whatever their label of whatever you identify as, whether Republican, Democrat, Socialist or whatever.

And that is being at the front of a conversation in a way that is tainting how you can experience a person in real life.

In a way that I didn't feel when I first came to America.

When I first came, yeah. Because remember, I came when Obama was still in power. You're not wrong, actually. Yeah, when I came at the tail end of Obama, everyone assumed Hillary would win. And to be a Trump voter was a very quiet thing. I mean, we only discovered there were so many voters when the guy won. Because everyone was, it was just those red hat people over there.

You never thought it was a people around you. And I think, There became this scrutiny after Trump won, like, did you vote for him? Did you vote for him? I think you voted for him. Like that suspicion for people who weren't in active mourning that Hillary wasn't president. And then it changed the timber of our interactions in a way that I don't think we've recovered from or gone back to.

And I think that's even deepened now in his second term.

Yeah.

I felt it with Trump. Maybe that's a result of the bubble I was in myself. I just think we're in a time where people feel really defensive about what they believe. And there's not much step base for negotiation.

Which we actually read, by the way.

I love that one you just did.

Yeah, you're immersed into this world of COVID.

And the people arguing.

I was like, damn, this is... Wow. He said that it felt like sneaking into a diary entry.

So that's interesting because like Darnell and, you know, all of these horrible men in the book, their interior lives. They were not horrible. I found that, listen, it's my reading. Okay, okay, okay. What? I found a lot of them horrible.

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