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Cardinal Rex Lawson - Hail Biafra 

Re-reading Half Of A Yellow Sun. 

This song was playing at one of the character’s weddings. Some old school high life for the Thanksgiving weekend.

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2009 Commencement Address at Kalamazoo College, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (via KalamazooCollege)

“We live in a world of inequality, of gross inequality. And while one person in one part of the world stops eating out at restaurants because of the economic downturn, another confronts the possibility of not eating at all. And to remind you of this is to remind you of your privilege.”

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So why are you reading about *Biafra, are you trying to start your own country?

Mom when she learned I was reading Chimamanda Adichie’s, “Half of a Yellow Sun.”

Adichie and Half of a Yellow Sun

*”The Republic of Biafra was a secessionist state in south-eastern Nigeria. Biafra was inhabited mostly by the Igbo people (or Ibo[1]) and existed from 30 May 1967 to 15 January 1970. ”~wiki

GPOYW ChImamanda Adichie, my friend, Wendy and I when she spoke at our college. Fall 07 Big nerd moment for me.

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ChImamanda Adichie, my friend, Wendy and I when she spoke at our college. Fall 07

Big nerd moment for me.

I recently spoke at a university where a student told me that it was such a shame that Nigerian men were physical abusers like the father character in my novel. I told him I just read a novel called American Psycho and that it was such a shame that young Americans were serial murderers.

Chimamanda Adichie TED, October 2009

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“If you start the story with the arrows of the Native Americans and not with the arrival of the British then you have an entirely different story.  Start the story with the failure of the African state and not with the colonial creation of the African State and you have an entirely different story.”

TED, October 2009 Chimamanda Adichie on the dangers of stopping at a single story of a place or people.

Have you wondered why reviewers and blurb-writers are quick to reassure readers that a book about Africa (usually one written by a Black African about Black Africans) is NOT JUST AN AFRICAN BOOK BUT IS UNIVERSAL, as well? As if ‘African’ and ‘Universal’ are mutually exclusive. Nobody ever informs the reader that a great English or American novel is universal because the assumption, of course, is that it is.

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-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Everlasting crush

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One day Chimamanda Adichie & I will go on a date but until then I’ll go devour a copy of “The Thing Around Your Neck” and reminisce on the one time I got to hang out with her.