{"id":25151,"date":"2020-11-17T04:34:24","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T04:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=25151"},"modified":"2020-11-17T04:34:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T04:34:24","slug":"chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-america-under-trump-felt-like-a-personal-loss-interviewed-by-lisa-allardice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=25151","title":{"rendered":"Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: \u2018America under Trump felt like a personal loss&#8217;  -Interviewed by Lisa Allardice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=19271&amp;ad_type=81&amp;rl=1800\" width=\"336\" height=\"280\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"css-1olk8yb\">\n<div class=\"article-body-commercial-selector css-79elbk\">\n<p class=\"css-38z03z\"><span class=\"css-38z03z\">few hours before\u00a0Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie\u00a0and I are due to speak, the result of the US election is finally called. The Nigerian novelist, who is based in Maryland but is currently in Lagos, where she spends part of the year, had been on her way back from taking her daughter to a birth\u00adday party when she heard the news. \u201cThe moment that we\u2019ve been waiting for,\u201d she says. \u201cEveryone was calling: my best friend, my mum, my sister called, we were all sort of screaming down the phone.\u201d Her husband, a hospital doctor, had returned to the US the previous week. \u201cHe and I were going crazy,\u201d she says. \u201cI was almost close to tears because I thought this is really about people who just want decency back. I feel it is really not ideological, it is more about wanting something human and humane. I find it so moving.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-38z03z\">As it is for so many, her relief is tempered by disappointment at Donald Trump\u2019s unexpectedly strong perform\u00adance. \u201cI\u2019ve always felt that Trump is as much America as Obama,\u201d she says. \u201cPeople on the left like to say \u2018This is not America\u2019, but actually it is. If you look at the history of America, it is not that surprising that Trump is so popular.\u201d People feel \u201cvery threatened\u201d both by the idea of a more inclusive, multiracial politics and women having more overt power, she says. So the\u00a0victory for Kamala Harris\u00a0as the first black female vice-president-elect is all the more thrilling. \u201cIt is impossible to talk about her, about what\u2019s happened today, without thinking about what might happen in four or eight years \u2013 that she might in fact become president,\u201d Adichie says. \u201cEven if just for the symbolism of it, because the symbolic nature of leadership is important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-38z03z\">The reason for our call is the announcement that Adichie has won the public vote in the\u00a0Winner of Winner\u2019s award, celebrating 25 years of the Women\u2019s prize for fiction. She won the award, when it was sponsored by Orange, in 2007, for her epic war novel,\u00a0<em>Half of a Yellow Sun<\/em>, beating many of the biggest names in contemporary fiction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-38z03z\">We are talking on Zoom, London to Lagos, a conversation repeatedly interrupted by a poor internet connection and children in the manner that has become all too familiar in 2020. It has been an especially difficult year for Adichie, who has lost two aunts and her beloved father, a retired statistics professor (Nigeria\u2019s first), who died unexpectedly from complications of kidney failure in June. The pandemic meant she couldn\u2019t return to Nigeria, and the funeral, a traditional Igbo ceremony, had to be delayed until October. In a heartbreaking piece entitled \u201cNotes on Grief\u201d in the New Yorker she describes a \u201csurreal\u201d Zoom call with her family after his death. \u201cAll of us weeping and weeping and weeping, in different parts of the world, looking in disbelief at the father we adore now lying still on a hospital bed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-38z03z\">Today she is wearing a bright purple T-shirt with \u201cMy father\u2019s daughter\u201d emblazoned in Igbo on the front, one of several she had made. \u201cI really found this so therapeutic. It is ridiculous how many T-shirts I designed. I wear them and I feel comforted.\u201d Rather incongruous with her shorts and top, her hair has been elaborately styled for a photoshoot for the Women\u2019s prize, a combination that sums up her overwhelming sense of \u201cpretending through tears\u201d. Earlier she was overcome by an impulse to call her father and talk to him about Joe Biden. He would have been the first person she told about this new award. But she was pleased to be able to call her mother \u201cand have her look delighted, even if only briefly. But yeah I\u2019m really happy,\u201d she says, tearfully.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-38z03z\">Over its 25 years, the Women\u2019s prize has set out to \u201creflect women\u2019s voices from all over the world\u201d, its watchwords are \u201cexcellence, originality and accessibility\u201d. Adichie credits the prize with helping her find a mainstream readership: her first novel,\u00a0<em>Purple Hibiscus<\/em>, about a young girl growing up with both a tyrannical father and a military coup to contend with, was shortlisted in 2004, \u201cwhich really made people know that I existed\u201d. When she won three years later for\u00a0<em>Half of a Yellow Sun<\/em>, the book was received not as \u201can African novel\u201d, or a novel \u201cby a woman\u201d, but simply as a novel, she says. \u201cI\u2019m just so damn grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"css-10khgmf\">\n<div class=\"css-1nfcn93\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/75fd77cd5440d28c7871f5f859c06867d877fc83\/0_0_3283_2190\/master\/3283.jpg?width=620&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e55f046efd705f0a56a2a3c1ff09eb6a 1240w\" media=\"(min-width: 620px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.25), (min-width: 620px) and (min-resolution: 120dpi)\" sizes=\"620px\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/75fd77cd5440d28c7871f5f859c06867d877fc83\/0_0_3283_2190\/master\/3283.jpg?width=620&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e55f046efd705f0a56a2a3c1ff09eb6a 620w\" media=\"(min-width: 620px)\" sizes=\"620px\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/75fd77cd5440d28c7871f5f859c06867d877fc83\/0_0_3283_2190\/master\/3283.jpg?width=620&amp;quality=45&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=63803cb1d89622a458a880046b9aeeee 2480w\" media=\"(min-width: 1240px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.25), (min-width: 1240px) and (min-resolution: 120dpi)\" sizes=\"1240px\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/75fd77cd5440d28c7871f5f859c06867d877fc83\/0_0_3283_2190\/master\/3283.jpg?width=620&amp;quality=45&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=63803cb1d89622a458a880046b9aeeee 1240w\" media=\"(min-width: 1240px)\" sizes=\"1240px\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/75fd77cd5440d28c7871f5f859c06867d877fc83\/0_0_3283_2190\/master\/3283.jpg?width=605&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a559c2fefe0ee72b826c4322ef2ac1e2 1210w\" media=\"(min-width: 605px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.25), (min-width: 605px) and (min-resolution: 120dpi)\" sizes=\"605px\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/75fd77cd5440d28c7871f5f859c06867d877fc83\/0_0_3283_2190\/master\/3283.jpg?width=605&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a559c2fefe0ee72b826c4322ef2ac1e2 605w\" media=\"(min-width: 605px)\" sizes=\"605px\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/75fd77cd5440d28c7871f5f859c06867d877fc83\/0_0_3283_2190\/master\/3283.jpg?width=605&amp;quality=45&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=444566f3a7f43b8cd0d09e037a47a242 2420w\" media=\"(min-width: 1210px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.25), (min-width: 1210px) and (min-resolution: 120dpi)\" sizes=\"1210px\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/75fd77cd5440d28c7871f5f859c06867d877fc83\/0_0_3283_2190\/master\/3283.jpg?width=605&amp;quality=45&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=444566f3a7f43b8cd0d09e037a47a242 1210w\" media=\"(min-width: 1210px)\" sizes=\"1210px\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/75fd77cd5440d28c7871f5f859c06867d877fc83\/0_0_3283_2190\/master\/3283.jpg?width=445&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ae3d766cac441622a7d4dc21366328ac 890w\" media=\"(min-width: 445px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.25), (min-width: 445px) and (min-resolution: 120dpi)\" sizes=\"445px\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/75fd77cd5440d28c7871f5f859c06867d877fc83\/0_0_3283_2190\/master\/3283.jpg?width=445&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ae3d766cac441622a7d4dc21366328ac 445w\" media=\"(min-width: 445px)\" sizes=\"445px\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/75fd77cd5440d28c7871f5f859c06867d877fc83\/0_0_3283_2190\/master\/3283.jpg?width=445&amp;quality=45&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=40a41b35fec72bb69fab0d4d48e5e6e0 1780w\" media=\"(min-width: 890px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.25), (min-width: 890px) and (min-resolution: 120dpi)\" sizes=\"890px\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/75fd77cd5440d28c7871f5f859c06867d877fc83\/0_0_3283_2190\/master\/3283.jpg?width=445&amp;quality=45&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=40a41b35fec72bb69fab0d4d48e5e6e0 890w\" media=\"(min-width: 890px)\" sizes=\"890px\" \/><\/picture><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"css-38z03z\">Since then she has gone on to share a stage with\u00a0Hillary Clinton\u00a0and have tea with Oprah Winfrey; her books are a staple of school reading lists and she inadvertently found herself a poster girl for modern feminism after her 2012 TED talk\u00a0We Should All Be Feminists, went stratospheric and was distributed in book form to every\u00a016-year-old in Sweden<em>.\u00a0<\/em>It is hard to think of another writer whose words might be borrowed by\u00a0Beyonc\u00e9\u00a0for a song and by Dior for T-shirts. And now, aged 43, she has been chosen as the \u201cbest of the best\u201d of a quarter of a century of women\u2019s fiction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-38z03z\">She can\u2019t account for the enduring popularity of\u00a0<em>Half of a Yellow Sun<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 a novel that, 13 years after its publication, readers voted for over hits such as Lionel Shriver\u2019s\u00a0<em>We Need to Talk About Kevin<\/em>, Andrea Levy\u2019s\u00a0<em>Small Island<\/em>\u00a0or this year\u2019s winner, Maggie O\u2019Farrell\u2019s\u00a0<em>Hamnet<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 but it is a book she loves. \u201cIt is the one that made me believe in this kind of mystical thing, that I was meant to write the story and that my grandfather\u2019s spirit wanted me to,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-38z03z\">It is especially pleasing that the honour has been given to a novel, \u201cmy most personal by far\u201d, that couldn\u2019t have been written without her father. Set during the\u00a0Biafran war\u00a0of 1967-70, in which both her grandfathers died,\u00a0<em>Half of a Yellow Sun<\/em>\u00a0grew out of the stories Adichie heard as a child growing up in the aftermath of the conflict, many of which were told by her father. \u201cHe\u00a0<em>was<\/em>\u00a0a very good storyteller\u201d, she corrects herself after using the present tense. \u201cI read a lot about that period, but I like to say that what I got from the books were the facts, but from the stories people told me I got the truth.\u201d All of the horrors that happen in the book are based on real incidents, including the burning of her father\u2019s books in their front yard. \u201cIt was just a very petty, ugly thing to do, to say \u2018Fuck you\u2019 to academics and intellectuals,\u201d she says. \u201c I can\u2019t imagine losing my books, the books I love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-38z03z\">It wasn\u2019t until she was at graduate school at Johns Hopkins University that Adichie finally started writing\u00a0<em>Half of a Yellow Sun<\/em>, which then came in a rush of furious concentration. She would write all day, stopping only for occasional bouts on her skipping rope, barely leaving her tiny apartment in Baltimore except to stock up on snacks. One day she ventured out to the shop and was terrified to discover the city was in the grip of a cicada invasion, which had been in the news for days. Halfway through writing, she \u201cneeded to walk the paths that my grandfather had walked\u201d, and so she returned to write at her parents\u2019 home in Nsukka, the town in Igboland where she had grown up. Throughout, she was weighed down by responsibility, the awareness<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>that for many \u201cthis book will not just be literature, it will be history. I think I\u2019ve done with feeling<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>the dutiful daughter of history,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-38z03z\">In what has become part of Adichie legend, her hero Chinua Achebe set the novel on its way when he christened her \u201ca new writer endowed with the gift of ancient storytellers\u201d before it was even published. Her editor read his words to her over the phone. \u201cHonestly, I remember thinking, if nothing else happens with this book, this is enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=19271&amp;ad_type=81&amp;rl=1800\" width=\"336\" height=\"280\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<aside class=\"css-15qwj6j\">\n<blockquote class=\"css-6n7j50\"><p>There\u2019s a sense in which you aren\u2019t allowed to learn and grow &#8230; I find it so lacking in compassion<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<footer><cite><\/cite><\/footer>\n<\/aside>\n<p class=\"css-38z03z\">Her next novel,\u00a0<em>Americanah<\/em>, released in 2013, is a warm, witty but angry look at what it means to be black in the States. \u201cI went to the US and had to learn about race,\u201d she says. The novel builds euphorically to the election of Barack Obama in 2008. \u201cOh my God, Pennsylvania!\u201d one of the characters exclaims in a prophetic echo of the last few hours we have just witnessed. The scene ends with heroine Ifemelu mesmerised by the \u201cresplendent crowd of the hopeful\u201d welcoming the new president-elect. \u201cThere was at that moment, nothing that was more beautiful to her than America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-38z03z\"><strong>Adichie shares Ifemelu\u2019s respect for \u201cthe\u00a0<em>idea<\/em>\u00a0of America\u201d, despite a \u201cclear-eyed\u201d awareness of its problems, and the way in which her admiration has been eroded by the last four years under Trump, as she has \u201cwatched America become ordinary. It felt almost like a personal loss. Suddenly the thing that I thought was shiny no longer was. Suddenly America was a place that we could laugh about and mock.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-38z03z\"><strong>She hopes that the election of Biden will usher in a return to public civility. \u201cI\u2019m really excited at the idea that the discourse across the country will not sound like childish name calling. There\u2019s a sadness there that this is how low the bar has sunk,\u201d she says. \u201cWhen you are Nigerian there are things that are familiar to you. You don\u2019t expect them to happen in America. Trump showed me how fragile democracy is, how fragile what we consider the norms are.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-38z03z\">Does she feel hopeful for America in general? \u201cI can\u2019t answer that now. If I answer that today because I have a bit of a high I would lie to you.\u201d But one undoubted cause for optimism is the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement. \u201cAt least the American left is willing now to really engage with racism,\u201d she says. The protests have \u201cforced the conversation and forced the shift to something more tangible, forced actions. It felt like a real, raw movement. I felt like young black people were letting the pain out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-38z03z\">She is cautious to avoid what she regards as \u201ca quickness to self-righteousness\u201d on the left. She could write a character who would find Trump appealing, she says: \u201cIt makes a kind of emotional logic to me as a novelist.\u201d She\u2019s already \u201chad fun\u201d with Melania Trump (in a\u00a0short story for the New York Times), for whom she felt a \u201ckind of sympathy\u201d, although she now thinks she was probably \u201ctoo kind\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-38z03z\">When I\u00a0last spoke to Adichie\u00a0following the paperback publication of\u00a0<em>Dear Ijeawele<\/em>\u00a0in 2018, her manifesto for bringing up a feminist daughter, she had recently been on the wrong end of what she calls\u00a0\u201cthe American liberal orthodoxy\u201d\u00a0for comments she made arguing that the experiences of trans women are distinct from those of women born female. She has no truck with \u201ccancel culture\u201d (her quote marks). \u201cThere\u2019s a sense in which you aren\u2019t allowed to learn and grow. Also forgiveness is out of the question. I find it so lacking in compassion. How much of our wonderfully complex human selves are we losing?\u201d she asks. \u201cI think in America the worst kind of censorship is self-censorship, and it is something America is exporting to every part of the world. We have to be so careful: you said the wrong word you must be crucified immediately.\u201d She was interested by \u201call the noise\u201d sparked by\u00a0JK Rowling\u2019s article on\u00a0sex and gender, \u201ca perfectly reasonable piece\u201d in her view, earlier this year. \u201cAgain JK Rowling is a woman who is progressive, who clearly stands for and believes in diversity.\u201d She blames social media for this rush to censure, which she finds both \u201ccruel and sad. And in terms of ideas, it is fundamentally uninteresting. The orthodoxy, the idea that you are supposed to mouth the words, it is so boring.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>In general, human beings are emotionally intelligent enough to know when something is coming from a bad place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-38z03z\">Despite the political darkness in which she grew up, Adichie\u2019s writing about her childhood shines with love and laughter; the clever young Chimamanda was always supported intellectually and emotionally. This helped to make her fearless. \u201cBecause I\u2019ve had my family behind me I\u2019ve never really felt that I cannot say what I think because I\u2019m going to upset somebody.\u201d Her brothers still laugh at the fuss that is made of her in Nigeria, rolling their eyes when people want to take pictures with her. In writerly circles in the US, she has found herself feeling \u201calmost guilty\u201d, and wonders how much the idea of the writer as the product of a joyless childhood is a western thing.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cI feel like I have many many issues as I am, right,\u201d she laughs. \u201cI can\u2019t imagine how much worse it would be if I had not had a happy childhood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-38z03z\">But now her world has changed. \u201cMy father really was the loveliest man.\u201d She looks back to a housewarming party her sister held in January. \u201cEverybody felt really hopeful about 2020. My dad was there and my aunt was there. It is so strange to think that in only three months she would be dead and in five my dad would be gone,\u201d she says. \u201cI really do feel that I\u2019ve been remade. I feel that I\u2019ve been remade by grief.\u201d Even though it is late in Lagos, she is off to read her daughter a bedtime story and then she is going to start\u00a0<em>Half of a Yellow Sun<\/em>, which she hasn\u2019t reread for a longtime: \u201cI want to go back and find the person I was then.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"slot-body-end\">\n<div class=\"css-hr4bqa\">\n<section class=\"css-q5digb\">\n<h2 class=\"css-1xg62vk\">News is under threat \u2026<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-127xirx\">\u2026 just when we need it the most. Millions of readers around the world are flocking to the Guardian in search of honest, authoritative, fact-based reporting that can help them understand the biggest challenge we have faced in our lifetime. But at this crucial moment, news organisations are facing a cruel financial double blow: with fewer people able to leave their homes, and fewer news vendors in operation, we\u2019re seeing a reduction in newspaper sales across the UK. 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