Rican Quotes
If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices.
Tags: Failure, Leadership, Place ✍ Author: Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieIt is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.
Tags: Human, Poor, Poverty ✍ Author: Chimamanda Ngozi AdichiePerhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in 'real' African culture, before it was tainted by the West, gender roles were rigid and women were contentedly oppressed.
Tags: Real, Time, Women ✍ Author: Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieWhat I find problematic is the suggestion that when, say, Madonna adopts an African child, she is saving Africa. It's not that simple. You have to do more than go there and adopt a child or show us pictures of children with flies in their eyes. That simplifies Africa.
Tags: Children, Eyes, Simple ✍ Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie