Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigeria’s Failed Promises

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... yet they spoke in whispers ... a tale about political fear, and then about enthusiastic expectations, and then about failed promises ... it happened in Nigeria, it happens anywhere.

NY Times: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigeria’s Failed Promises

... in a country enamored of dark humor, a common greeting now is “Happy recession!” - end of story ... (probably the light at the end of the tunnel - my take).

(Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)

From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Gloria Steinem, Jon Meachem, and Rachida Jones

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She had rhythm, a flow and swerve, hands slicing air, body weight moving from foot to foot, a beautiful rhythm. In anything else but a black American body, it would have been contrived. The three-quarter sleeves of her teal dress announced its appropriateness, as did her matching brooch (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie).

A beautiful portrait carved in the shape of four thank-you notes:

NY Times: To the First Lady, With Love

(Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Arrangements

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Melania decided she would order the flowers herself. Donald was too busy now anyway to call Alessandra’s as usual and ask for “something amazing.” Once, in the early years, before she fully understood him, she had asked what his favorite flowers were.

The NY Times Book Review asked Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to write a short story related to the current US presidential campaign. She came with The Arrangements, a very contemporary replica to Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, with Melania Trump as Clarissa:

The Arrangements

(Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)

(Virginia Woolf)

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Nigerian anglophone novelist, nonfiction writer and short story writer, probably best known for Americanah; divides her time between the US and Nigeria; I intend to read some of her books (including, of course, Americanah); for now, I have just read We Should All Be Feminists; I would come back to it.

• The Arrangements
• From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Gloria Steinem, Jon Meachem, and Rachida Jones
• Nigeria's Failed Promises

(A Life in Books)