Christiana
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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
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Oh my God. Well, you guys know I'm anti-men in general.
You know, my life is just filled with brilliant women.
Are they like brothers, family members?
Yeah, I just speak to them during the night between nine to five.
In terms of who disturbed my spirit the most that left me vibrating a bit, Kwame.
and that's because I'm postpartum myself and those scenes of Zecora like knowing her mother in a new way because of the vacuum of that man not being there was really beautiful to me because me and my friends talk about all the time like it took us becoming mothers to actually see our mothers as girls it's a dialogue we're constantly having Kwame because of how he behaved and how his family behaved that created a resentment I'm like that's not an honourable person
So lying to me, that's like a horrible man.
Oh, interesting. Can you go into that a bit more?
Yeah.
But on the empathy point, when people listen to this after they've read the book.
Why would, what would evoke empathy?
One of my favorite lines is the character that basically says, when you get married, they leave you alone, even if you divorce them. I was like, this is so brilliant. Yeah.
Nigerian logic but it's the truth because like so many of my friends just said I just got married for freedom freedom from the question from the judgment oh because your family leaves you alone yeah yeah now you're in your husband's house I'm not even going to complain about the things you do because you're under his dominion right right right so to speak and it's
Which is so unvarnished because that's not necessarily a thing, even as direct and honest as Nigerian women are, is what we'd say in a forum that is not private. You know what I mean? I felt like in moments you're in the inner sanctum of the things women say to each other that they don't tell other people that I sometimes tell Trevor.
I'm interested because we kind of started this where we're talking about, you know, you don't look at the fame, you don't think about audience.
For fiction. Are there moments when you're writing fiction when you're like, that feels, I can't go there?
Never? Nope.
So it's kind of, there's a fearlessness that comes with the fiction.
Why did you? I know you don't like the why questions, but why did you?
And you have some very direct characters. From above.
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