![]() ![]() “Now that I, too, am the mother of a delightful baby girl,” Adichie writes in the introduction, “I realize how easy it is to dispense advice about raising a child when you are not facing the enormously complex reality of it yourself.”Īnd so the piece became a message to her friend Ijeawele, to Ijeawele’s daughter Chizalum, to the world, to herself and to her own child. ![]() ![]() By the time she had completed it, she was a new mother as well. So Adichie, a self-proclaimed feminist and bestselling author, began working on the project that would eventually become this manifesto. How do you raise a feminist when you aren’t a master of feminism-or motherhood-yourself? Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s latest book, Dear Ijeawele, Or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, perfectly frames this difficult task.Īdichie confesses that she was motivated by a challenge from her good friend Ijeawele, who asked for concrete ways to raise her (at the time, unborn) daughter as a feminist. ![]()
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