Christiana
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1,364 appearances
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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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Yeah, and I was going to say that brings us to one of the characters in the book is based on a woman who exists in real life. Can you tell us a bit more?
My parents were, it wounded me because I just thought, this is so wrong.
We just articulate all the time the norm.
But it's just the spectacle of it all.
Oh, but we like to see Luigi.
The character says in America, money is justice. Yes. Which was very powerful to me because you just sue. Yeah.
Yeah.
Empathy.
And who are your enemies?
So as I say often, I have a very dim view of human nature. It's very Hobbesian. So I've always thought people are terrible and I still think they're terrible. I don't think that's true. I really, I'll ask this guy.
Talk about generational trauma. I always say to my, like my father and his two brothers miraculously survived Biafra. And considering what they've gone through, they are such good and compassionate and empathetic and non-suspicious people. You would think I went through the war, but no. And what I tell my therapist is that the generational trauma is that I'm hypervigilant.
I'm probably speaking nonsense. But what I do say is some people have a more dim view of human nature. And if that is true, because I always say, you know, there are racists. Racists need their outlet. Sometimes their Twitter. Like there are some people who have odious points of view. There's people that do not see my humanity. How do we go from there? Because I think maybe there's an in-between.
Oh, okay.
So you're not talking about the fringe or the... No, no. You're talking about maybe the... The masses, the collective in the middle.
As a justification.
Yeah, culty.
One speaks to the darkness, the other speaks to the light. There's an overlap in their voters. And they both speak to some aspirations, but in different ways.
You're not sold. I love it.
I like it.
I mean, the school fees are high. They're high, right?
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