Ask Your Daughter The Writer To Bring The Money – Chimamanda Shares Heart-breaking Details Of Her Father’s Kidnap
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie during a recent interview on BBC News Hours, shares her take on the 2015 presidential elections, the details of her father’s kidnap and the ideal world without gender discrimination she envisions.
Excerpts from the Interview below:
On Her Father’s Kidnap:
“We are still reeling from it- We still have nightmares. I felt deeply hurt .I also felt very angry…I never imagined it would happen to us. And to an 80 year old father like my father who spent his whole life teaching for Nigeria- I felt Nigeria had failed us…The state government did not do as much as we had hoped. It’s just the larger problem of inefficiency… One person has now been caught and is in custody but in general we still don’t know.”
She also revealed her father’s kidnappers kept prodding him to call her for money saying- “ask your daughter the writer to bring the money”.
She spoke on her father’s reaction to them:
“My father was very keen to protect me. He kept saying to them – I don’t have her number on my phone, I don’t remember it.”
Her Take on Gender Equality in Nigeria
“Gender is something I think we need to talk about. When we talk about women in power, increasingly now I am more interested in talking about-What kind of power? In Nigerian for example, political parties have what they call the women’s wing which to me is troubling because it suggests that mainstream political activity is not for women- right now.”
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