That moment she said, "Those people who ban books dont actually read" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂. So true

@didimarcus277

7 ай бұрын

How is it true? That reprogramming minds in a path that it not good for them through books you say is what?

@sanp6092

7 ай бұрын

So true 👍🏿

@hannahackerman5017

7 ай бұрын

Yeeeees sooo true.

@viokand

7 ай бұрын

Just like one of the presidential candidates declared few years ago "I love the poorly educated".

@reesereserved

7 ай бұрын

lol it's actually not. people who ban books are mostly because these books try to indoctrinate children. or spread lies packaged as history. search youtube for the number of parents in public schools in the US and the kind of books they seek the school boards to ban. democrats/leftists are just disingenuous people.

People should please step out of their negativity. Ms Ngozi Adichie is one of the best speakers out there. I admire her level of confidence and knowledge. The way she dresses and her hairdo define her true authentic self and she does not pretend to be what she is not. As a matter of fact, she should be someone to be emulated. Thank you Ms Ngozi for making us proud!!😊

@emmanuelochieke1645

7 ай бұрын

The so-called "negativity" is the reason she is famous, and draws interests, not because of "patronizing compliments."

@enjay4381

7 ай бұрын

Ofcourse she's my mentor.

@johnnwako2488

7 ай бұрын

Ms Adichie!

@JoseManuel-jd1yr

7 ай бұрын

Uma senhora autentica que fala so acerteza mas os donos da Terra nao gostam da verdade America e Democracia so nos livros So para perceber e so ver a contribuicao de Holocausto em Gaza autorizar um Regime Fascista genocida de Apartheid acabar uma geracao do jovens e criancas palestinas

@zeeone4492

7 ай бұрын

Her taking pictures with the war criminal Hillary Clinton was disappointing

I loved the fact that she recognised that children should not come in contact with certain books not their age...

Lady Chimamanda, beauty and brains together. I love you dearly. Thanks for making Nigeria proud. Shalom.

@ravisingh7928

7 ай бұрын

Shalom....??? Idf speaking..?

There's beauty in the ordinary. Thank you, Chimamanda.

The speaker of truth is not liked by many people_ Plato.

I can listen to Ngozi all day ❤

@youme1414

7 ай бұрын

Why does Ngozi sound like a man?

@ndidiamakacordi2953

7 ай бұрын

Honestly!

@festusmegbehingbe313

5 ай бұрын

👍👋

@mmaborekamogelo1818

5 ай бұрын

Same😍

People who are afraid of the truth are afraid of letting the truth known by others, especially the next generation who will stand up to challenge some truths that have been hidden for decades.

"The ordinary is okay" This quote made my day. Thank you Chimamanda Adiche ❤

I was taught about slavery in my school from the age of 7years even though I felt sad, it empowered me and made me know how my ancestors suffered in the hands of some white people who were engaged in the atrocities of slavery. The inhumanised treatments they suffered. Black history must be taught early in schools.

@thomgrlisdebra

6 ай бұрын

I am in my 50s and we, too, were taught about slavery from Kindergarten through 12th grade. Our teachers were predominantly black, and they always reminded us of what great things our ancestors achieved even in the midst of great suffering. It was a privilege to get an education because so many of our ancestors were not allowed to attend school. Lastly, my parents, who experienced Jim Crow laws taught and modeled forgiveness! What a powerful concept forgiveness is, eh?

@tegridy9569

6 ай бұрын

Don't forget about some of the black people who sold slaves, also, all the white people who were enslaved.

@user-oi6hm6kf8h

6 ай бұрын

This is my own experience in North America the gang members trying to hurt me they are from all race black Americans and white Americans ,Africans Nigeria I was born in Nigeria Asia they members in all countries for me it’s about Good and evil people in all countries

@Back-to-Nature321

6 ай бұрын

​@@tegridy9569True, up-to-date!

@relatable-withlucyk1085

6 ай бұрын

​@@thomgrlisdebrao

Truth is not allowed in certain parts of the western world.

Ngozi can endear her story telling prowess into your mind without your notice..

@PepTalkTillYouDrop

7 ай бұрын

Is that why she's trying to feed kids with her evil agenda? I'm a Nigerian who respects her but im not a bootlicker.

I am a teacher with over 2 decades of experience, teaching and living on all the habitable continents of the world, and I am now uploading my experience unto my channel, with the aim of inspiring more people to embrace what I do. My goal is to hopefully stem this rising tide of hiding the truth, which is currently sweeping across the globe. As a Nigerian myself, Chimamanda has inspired me so much, and I know I have used her 'Danger of a Single Story' speech in all the classrooms I have entered, simply because a lot of people (by instinct) do not expect me to occupy the role I currently occupy on the international teaching stage. Children need to be exposed to crucial history and knowledge, albeit at a level appropriate for them. Wrapping them up in ignorance bliss just because someone somewhere thinks it will hurt their feeling is wrong - people who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.

@VibertWhyte-gy8js

Ай бұрын

This comment is so factual ..Anyone who don't know his past((History)) is bound to repeat same...HOW TRUE 100%!!

Brilliant writer and icon of our generation. Thanks for telling the stories most people don't want to talk about. I love your courage!

Dear Chimamanda you are always making us proud. May God keep helping you in Jesus name. Amen.

@PepTalkTillYouDrop

7 ай бұрын

Speak for yourself.

@ndidiamakacordi2953

7 ай бұрын

@@PepTalkTillYouDrop Who are you? I don't know you, so I am not referring to you (you should know that). I know alot of people that are proud of Chimamanda as I am.

@mutelarsorhougbe4606

7 ай бұрын

@@PepTalkTillYouDropwe are proud of her indeed

@ndidiamakacordi2953

7 ай бұрын

@@mutelarsorhougbe4606 Yes! Thank you.

Epic beauty , brains and novels….God bless you Chimamanda, continue to make Nigeria and Africa relevant and proud.

@PepTalkTillYouDrop

7 ай бұрын

Did you hear what they said she did? I'm Nigerian and those books won't sell a dime in Nigeria wtf.

@onlinehustletrendzzz

7 ай бұрын

What did she do? Please, enlighten us.

@tierraokonkwo6671

6 ай бұрын

Actually we do buy her books in Nigeria. I don't think you are a reader. Do not just say things you don't know😂​@@PepTalkTillYouDrop

God bless Chimamanda. Love from your brother in Nigeria

we are so proud of you sister chimamanda our prayers for you 🙌🙌

Proud of Ngozi and this this host👏❤️

I just love this woman. So brilliant

Chimamanda is one of my favorite writers. I have ALL of her books in my personal at home library. A library I built up for more than 20 years. Banning of books is often done by those who do not read well; many are hypocrites, some wolves in sheep clothing. Reading isFUNDAMENTAL!!

My God Cannot Fail... Thats the meaning of your name... Chimamanda. ❤

Thank you for posting. Always a pleasure to listen to Ms. Adichie

You are greatly loved and appreciated Lady Chi. N. Adichie. Thanks.

Ms. Ngozi is one of the best writers out there with such eloquence and sound mind that learning institutions should be exposed to her work. 😊❤😊❤😊❤😊❤

It is nauseating whenever as a black man .... I hear the black race being compared to gay people. For whatever reason stop comparing blacks to gay people

People who do not read are the ones who want to ban books. People whonread know that no book should ever be banned. Ideas should always be expressed and discussed.

@didimarcus277

7 ай бұрын

Also bibles should be left in Libraries and should be read during classes.

@tierraokonkwo6671

6 ай бұрын

Why only Bibles, we should also read other religious texts😂​@@didimarcus277

@mellandy87

5 ай бұрын

Um Yes and No. The bible and any other religious book should be in Libraries yet no one should have to read it during class.@@didimarcus277

The ordinary is okay. This is one of the most profound statements I’ve heard in a while and yet it’s so simple ❤ a beautifully held conversation this was

Love what you stands for Ngozi. The truth is bitter. The Lord keep and watch over you sister

She has no time for nonsense! Ever smiling as she reels out the obvious "Truth"!

Ngozi all the way nothing wrong with ngozi but good ness

"Performative recognition..." This is fundamental to many issues of inequality.

I love you Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Odeluigbo)Epitome of beauty and brains. Your seamless objective analysis with facts is fascinating. Keep it up sis. The host is equally amazing, fantastic job. Cheers to both of you.

Congratulation chimamanda i admire the fact that u are real.Am a Cameroo ian living in German u make proud to be an Africa

Brilliant woman, Miss Adichie 👏🏾

@mercycherisa.5607

7 ай бұрын

Mrs Adichie

She's the Best

@stdsobresaliente288

7 ай бұрын

she truly is. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a gem.

@therealceleyon

7 ай бұрын

How do you think she should present her views? Please explain to me because I'm the next Chimamanda.

I replayed again and again.

You have spoken very well, quite on point, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Much love 💗💗💗

Chimamanda,you are really a genius. Continue doing us proud. God is your strength.

Very intelligent and exceptional person full of knowledge

Pls keep living for the truth you are encouraging we upcoming generation to stand for what is worth living for. Rooting for you ngozi.

Beautiful Queen. Well put and great input 👏 👍 👌

the sad future for the next generation is the loss of their creativities but it must and should not be like that their parents should encourage it as an African i started reading at 10years old because i lived with an uncle who read and at 73 i spend 3 hours or more a day reading feeding my mind which is so important people do not realise how far books could take a children they can become writers like Ngozi Qprah Winifrey is a billionaire because of her love of books early in her life which has shaped her to be where she is a child who loves books could become a poet, music writers etc articulate, confident so many thing he could do instead of looking for jobs please parents especially Africans encourage your children to read and write so they do not lose their creativities feed their minds

@didimarcus277

7 ай бұрын

No one is saying books should not be read but certain books should not be open for children to read.

@gladysanayor-achu2167

7 ай бұрын

But rhat child could still develop well intellectually with the wide variety of books that are not banned. Books about sexual inclinations should be age specific.

@tierraokonkwo6671

6 ай бұрын

They are banning books without knowing what is in there, 😂​@@didimarcus277

I love you for your honest view to life

God bless you Chimamanda...You are such an icon...love from your brother ..Nigeria...

It was the banning of Aristotle's Metaphysics that drew the curiosity of Aquinas to secretly read it and gave back the lessons of same to the very group that banned it giving the Theology that has shaped the Western Catholicism. Motus Immobilis of Aristotle becoming the Springboard for Aquinas' Living God.

Wow! Book banning reminds me of apartheid South Africa. It is true Chimamanda, we were curious and making sure we were reading those banned books as quick as we could.

My favorite author any day, anytime! ❤❤

That is exactly what I wanted to say for children of inquisitive minds- ‘ they will always want to read banned books more’. Lol

A side note, i think the host interviewer sounds so much like Kerry Washington, delightfully so! Always lovely to listen to Miss Chimamanda Adichie❤

Chimamanda you are adorable❤️

I love Chimamanda

@danladiojito9741

7 ай бұрын

Do you love me ?😅😂

A brilliant courageous intelligent eloquent person

Banned by people who do not read! What a nice way of saying, banned by blockheads.

wow first time witnessing such respect for an African guest, that's sweet professionalism

This is why I have my own personal Library.. I have a lot of books that they pulled but I got them. Build your own Library people in your home.

Thanks for sharing

She is a Nigerian and Igbo girl by tribe. Her hair style is the Nigerian Igbo girl hairstyle. Even though she is a naturalized citizen of US, she still showcases her Nigerian identity

Great woman ! She does make the finer distincions and does not get pulled into narratives. Like she mentions "appropriate" vs. biased book categories. She does nevertheless not address the root cause of todays banning paranoia which is a reaction to an agenda aimed at weakening the social fabric of our society.

Well done my sister Ngozi ❤. Simple life is good and peaceful 🎉🎉🎉

That's my favourite.....chimamanda

Africa will love your books. They will in the school carriculumn. You are successful and young. 💕

If LĢBTQ books are left on the American shelves, what positive effect will it have on the American Child or Youth compared to removing It?

@gladysanayor-achu2167

7 ай бұрын

I wonder

@rehemaparmena4714

7 ай бұрын

It will enlighten them, broaden their perspective, help them understand about people who identify in a way that may be different to them. Banning books about LGBT does not eradicate the group from society nor does it mean that their stories don't exist because they're not available to be read on American bookshelves. Kids end up being dumbed down, unenlightened and unable to understand societal issues. Why ban books on one group, LGBT and not ban on another such as WASP or men? Why should a minority group's literature and narrative be banned? In a country that prides itself in upholding free speech? No justification in 2023, in 1823 maybe, not 2023. My two cents from Kenya.

@be9513

5 ай бұрын

Everyone should let kids be kids.

Good presentation

The truth hurts and the past is now haunting the present that is why you are banned just for speaking the truth .we love you Africa loves you

highly phenomenal !

Greetings from Paris and from global Black family

Profound Love for You Queen Chimamanda Adichie. Ada di orah mma. Yagazieeeee

Very sad why is it happening knowledge is forever gold

People who embrace evil those who promote evil in the society are the one banning her book. Secondly they are afraid more money 💰 is going to come out of this book 📖

I love ordinary, people are putting too much pressure on themselves to be beyond

Real Igbo woman. Epic beauty with brains, Chimamanda she's the best

Quintessential lady. this Chimamanda Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi you are a germ and a darling to to me and many readers world and especially in Africa. Your Choice of word is so magnificent and extremely better than so manny European and first English speakers who write in English. Though l love your English eloquence please write one pigeon English book the Nigerian style . l am desperately want to understand it out of reading. Listening to it does not learn me much but reading can . l am sure great comedy it will be😂😂😂

@omalicha7388

5 ай бұрын

A gem

15:28 that’s what makes us human, the picture in the background is priceless. What shoe size are we really?

My sister my role model❤❤

Blessed lady

She is elegant and gorgeous.

I agree that it is about knowledge, but it's also about teaching children how to speak the truth. By banning books your white washing and therefore you are lying; you are teaching children that it's okay to change history if you don't like what you read.

As a black person I am sick of issues concerning black people and lgbtq people being conflated as if they are one. Carry your burdens, do your own hard work. Stop using black people as conveyers/conduits/filters for your message or cause, especially as some of the vilest racists I have come across are lgbtq, whether in the closet or fully out. Using Chimamanda isn't going to change that opinion and those experiences.

How did she say her second name again?😂😂😂😂😂 I was so sure she wouldn't be able to say her first name but miraculously she did it good... Her second name "NGOZI" in my Language kiswahili means "SKIN"

@teach2305

7 ай бұрын

Ngozi is a Igbo name from the Igbo speaking people of Nigeria. Ngozichukwuka which means blessing from God.❤❤

💐💐💐

I love Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie! She is a voice, like Toni Morrison, and Ta-Nehisi Coates, that more need to hear, absorb and learn from. Politics and racism as a flavor of American experience has no place in education. Alas, everyone, uneducated and unexposed to urbanity as most here are, act like know-it-alls and insist on comfort in their ignorance and reject out of hand what they know naught about, and that reporters, like the one here must ask the ridiculous question-line from their question bank, Do you have hope? or Where is the hope in conversations around race, CRT, etc? Ridiculous, knee jerk interview requirement -- only in America! First of all, would you have "hope" if similarly situated? I think not! Enragement is a closer emotion, and even that is useless in the face of ignorance which is largely lacking in self-reflective perspectives and drive to become urbane. That said, please keep writing and reporting, tides change so there is hope despite the toxic brew of ignorance paired with entitlement! BTW: CRT, critical race theory, is only taught on the graduate level in college. That elementary School boards are up in arms about it and PTAs are exercised in opposition to it attests in my world to just how deep racism is cut in to the American psyche, and how critical it is to expose it for what it is as the air of knowledge and truth are the only antidotes!

Proud of her ❤❤❤

Interesting. She is always real

Love you my sister

Why the hell am I not damn surprised, God damn it

The truth is, we, all the ones under the equatorial line, or better saying, non European or non North American people are starting to feel the impact of their true view of us, as animals in zoo. All the questions, all the "empathy" of our problems is not heartfull, it's just curiosity, just poking a dog and see what it does, throwing some fruits and seeing what we like, adopting kids as pets, as their saviors... "Are you a writer? Do they read? Do they know what book is? They expect us to tell sad histories about our perspective of non europeans, just to give the feeling that we are being heard... But that's a lie. We are entertainment, otherwise, we don't have any value. Our suffering is their joy. That makes them humans, makes them superior, makes them good people, because they are listening, helping, as long as we are suffering.

Banning books is equal to cutting out tongues

Iyayor!!!

KNOWLEDGE IS READING/ WISDOM IS READING/ UNDERSTANDING IS READING.

My role model.. everyday

The Life of Rosa Parks Banned?!! I'm shocked!!😮😮

Odeluwa 1

I know I'm going to get pushback on this but I don't care.... I don't like Gay being mixed in with the struggle for Civil Rights. Gayness should have it's own separate fight. I don't have anything against gay people. What you do in your home is your business but It shouldn't be mixed in with the struggles of Blacks In America.

@henriettebopda5895

5 ай бұрын

Tell that To Rustin Bayard, james Baldwin, Donald shirley

Removing and restricting books promoting perversion and sodomy is a wise move.

We have to first discuss what criteria in regards critiquing or scrutinizing contents have been set to banned certain books

so true

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The truth would down play their lies.