![]() I had done one TED Talk and I felt that I had already said what I could, in fact, say, and I didn’t think I had anything else worth talking about. What was it like to have your ideas about feminism go so viral? It felt strange and surprising. ![]() Reached by phone in Lagos, Adichie spoke to about the overwhelming success of her speech and what it means to talk politics with the whole world. Today, the speech comes out in eBook form, which you can purchase here. Previously best known for her fiction, Adichie delivered a TEDx Talk in 2013 so nuanced and rousing, Beyoncé sampled it in her empowerment anthem “Flawless.” Titled “We Should All Be Feminists,” Adichie’s oration weaved together human stories from her youth in Nigeria with a complicated discourse about gender roles in the modern world and a literal textbook definition of “feminism,” which she read aloud about halfway through. ![]() If anyone has the skills to make a speech about feminism go viral, it’s Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the Lagos-based writer whose ideas are as complex as her language is straightforward. ![]()
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