'Dear Ijeawele...': Reading with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichien • vo

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is one of the major writers of contemporary literature, author of The Purple Hibiscus, The Other Half of the Sun and the best seller Americanah. She is read and admired around the world, and her transcribed essay from a TED conference We should all be feminists was famously sampled by Beyoncé.

The Nigerian writer was at the FIFDH for an exceptional event, staged by Geneva’s Nalini Menamkat, around her latest book Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, a letter that the author wrote for a friend who had just given birth to a little girl.

Among the readers of this event are actresses Aïssa Maiga and Leila Alaouf, singer Barbara Hendricks and twelve women living in Geneva, of all ages and origins. Each will read fragments of the text in their own language, 15 languages in all. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie will translate and read one of the chapters in her mother tounge, Igbo

Readers

Katia Akselrod | Russian
Leila Alaouf | French
Olga Baranova | German
Radhia Bouzaine | Arabic
Laure Dieudonné | Creole
Silvia Fabiani | Italian
Barbara Hendricks | English
Sung-Mi Kim | Korean
Linn Larsdotter | Swedish
Aïssa Maïga | French
Rossella Mezzina | Spanish
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Igbo
Gláucia Ribeiro | Portuguese (Brazil)
Marta Roca i Escoda | Catalan
Renata Vujica | Bosnian
Junling Zhang | Chinese

[ijeleanozie]

Bravo, ma belle, soul, soeur, vous nous faites toujours avancer!!!! Igbo amaka, daalu!!