I Will Not Kneel If Men Don't Kneel | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie loves her Igbo culture but would like some things to change. Watch the full video here: • I will Not Kneel If Me...
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@landeno 11 ай бұрын

To all of you saying that she should practice her Western culture in Western society and other derogatory things, I will repeat what this wise woman said. Women are full human beings. This is what God himself says, yet men do not seem to want to accept this simple fact. Oppressors never want to let go of their oppression.

@theafricanblogger 10 ай бұрын

Absolute FACTS

@arizonaaliasofficial4733 9 ай бұрын

Woman are FULL HUMAN BEINGS but should play THEIR ROLE because many Women want the GLORY of a Man's position but not the GRIME. MEN are not superior but bear the HEAVIER BURDEN in many ways 🙏🏿

@stevenkhoza7350 8 ай бұрын

When you buy clothes is for u to wear it not it to wear you,and is for you to maintain your clothes for best results not clothes to maintain u....will understand if she paid my family a lobola. Then I can accept she is my king ,even in the Bible the king was referred to man but not women. But however keep disgracing the commandments and accept the results

@landeno 8 ай бұрын

@@stevenkhoza7350 what are you even talking about?

@mrlij6534 8 ай бұрын

@@arizonaaliasofficial4733 they cant survive without men, they dont take into account the things around them that are provided to them by Men. just wake up nonchalantly in lala land and everything is there but they dont think about who provides these basic things to survive in this world. so yeah kneel to your tradition

@Mrs.naturalez Жыл бұрын

so grateful for a woman like this in our world

@blackseed9293 Жыл бұрын

Why? Because she embraces the culture of whites?

@olushayotriumph 9 ай бұрын

She's operating under a curse. To the woman He said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you.” - Ge 3:16

@msaniitz5588 6 ай бұрын

@@olushayotriumph Wow. All of this desire to punch down. Talk about letting your insecurities show.

@iphy634 6 ай бұрын

In the Yoruba culture, the men prostrate while the women kneel which I believe shows a recognition that women are full human beings…

@1972Ray 6 ай бұрын

In the US, wealthy black men often partner with white women.

@thekjvsanitybiblestudybroa5972 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for this. You know most times when people have opportunity being uneducated in certain things, they sound as she's sounding. If she wanted to be against women kneeling she should have been against women kneeling unwillingly in the Igbo culture. So far she made it seem as though women are forced. Feminism is a curse

@iphy634 6 ай бұрын

@@thekjvsanitybiblestudybroa5972 🤔 I think some women are actually forced especially during mourning periods of their late husbands. I believe she’s talking about context. It may be good to see the full video. There are some barbaric cultures tbh and they recognise women as second class citizens and not full human beings…

@Debs567 5 ай бұрын

⁠Your absolutely right and well said!👌💯 All this business of woman emancipation, feminism, is the devil’s work and fight against God’s true setup of family. Women think they are being empowered whereas they end up taking the role of a husband/ father in the home, which father is set to look up to God as the head as well. A woman is meant to be a helper to the husband… but the women with all this feminism end up taking it out of context. Go look at Erica Mukasa’s testimony on life is spiritual and see how the devil was using her in this regard and the so called feminism. So my dear sisters, as your listening, pick what is valuable, you don’t have to take another person’s opinion if it’s not making sense to you or contradicting with your beliefs. Therefore, am not against her in particular, coz I like her so much,but am against this particular message she has passed on.

@pdm8446 5 ай бұрын

She was talking about her own Igbo culture, not a Yoruba culture. Also, this is a clip so we did not hear the full story. I, as an Igbo person do not even know the context of the situation where a woman is asked to kneel but not the man. I will need the full clip/story for it to make sense.

@LuLU-ep7wf 6 ай бұрын

i like how she thinks, speaks her mind!!!

@chimakalu5195 Жыл бұрын

Chimamanda. Pride of academic and professional success.

@tentaplayz3691 Жыл бұрын

Pride always goeth before a fall

@Kakwasi 5 ай бұрын

Having male organs doesn't make you superior in any way

@chimakalu5195 5 ай бұрын

Only God knows where these people are taking our world to. Yet they still call themselves cultural and traditional people.

@biasis-tv6355 5 ай бұрын

She's accomplished so much: today almost 50% of bricklayers and construction workers are women, same can be said of oil rig workers and the frontline military. All thanks to her. I also love her success in getting women to still be fertile in their 60s+ and how she's made both x and y reproductive chromosomes also available in women, even growing male and female parts. At first, I just thought talk was cheap and that story telling was easy, especially in this age where men already put technology and infrastructures in place following centuries of hard work if one is literary inclined and has passion for reading and writing. But with all these 50%/"equality" successes now entering even her village in Africa, she deserves a Nobel! With her you keep learning, I have never in my entire life heard that women are not full human beings to the point some persons have to fight to make women full human beings...

@grufelonius2014 5 ай бұрын

Lol.... back up your stats... u are misinformed. Currently 3.2% of brick and block layers are female. 🤦‍♂️

@childrentoys4537 5 ай бұрын

Lol🤣🤣🤣. I see what you did here😅.

@frances-salt7382 7 ай бұрын

Thank you, women like you are needed🙌🏽

@seraphinjj2012 7 ай бұрын

She’s brave and intelligent 😂

@bensonselebogo2768 5 ай бұрын

I doubt that she's intelligent.

@florencemutindi1291 5 ай бұрын

We don't have to fight for equality in everything sisters. We are not in a competition with men. Let's understand, play our roles respectively.

@sassyx2048 9 ай бұрын

Love this woman shes the voice of reason she uses her voice not just Talk Talk.

@asionyekennedy2028 7 ай бұрын

Lol 😅 she is just a celebrity but can’t fight for anything . Can she stand to physically fight for all this or just by mouth .

@1anre 4 ай бұрын

She's funny. Really funny

@olalekanobatoyinbo397 Жыл бұрын

I respect chimamanda alot, the issue of kneeling down,and kolanut is a Significant cultural value in igboland. Not kneeling is disrespectful.

@nafurtetmaat8737 5 ай бұрын

A lot of traditions changed when the missionaries came to Africa with their patriarchy. Africa was very much Matriarchal b4 that.

@gracegeorge7285 5 ай бұрын

“Not kneeling is disrespectful!?” Kneel to who? The almighty God or to your fellow human and then make it a woman thing?

@rebeccazikode5558 6 ай бұрын

The logarithms are sending Chimamanda's videos these days. I get to remember why I love her.

@stepheniheagwara6153 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful lady

@chinnyawesomewells5850 6 ай бұрын

I thank God everyday of my life than man is not God and God can never be man

@DebbiePumphery-tf7yt 10 ай бұрын

BEAUTIFUL. OPINIONATED. VERY. INTELLIGENT. PRAYERFUL. WITTY. JUST. GO. ON,. WITH. UR BAD. SELF. SISTA 🌿🥰🌿

@majamaja8136 5 ай бұрын

Continue shaking up the nigerian society , well done

@timporter6775 Жыл бұрын

And so it begins......

@John_DoeMusic 2 ай бұрын

You can't practice traditions only when they benefit you, you're either traditional or modern liberal

@sefunmiegeh8552 Жыл бұрын

What she’s saying is none sense because males and females have their respective roles n requirements in an African community. Just because she’s able to master one book doesn’t mean she has mastered every book. She needs to open her little mind pls.

@augustinemmuogbana3382 Жыл бұрын

Don't mind her.

@nafurtetmaat8737 9 ай бұрын

You are insulting. Having respective roles is one thing. But the act of them being submissive to men and putting women in positions that denigrate them and render them void of power need to change.

@lisa6356 6 ай бұрын

@@nafurtetmaat8737 I agree with you, however these pickmeishas can't see that.

@dugebuwembo 6 ай бұрын

She grew up in Nigeria 🇳🇬 she is a product of Igbo culture and knows it through & through. You cannot tell her about her own culture and she has every right to seek to challenge inequity within her culture and society as a member of that society. You are talking about her as if she is an outsider forcing change. Change has always happened in societies especially as economic and political realities have shifted. The Europe of today is not the same as the Europe of the Roman Empire! Britain of today isn't the same as Britain during the Tudor era... 🤷🏿‍♂️ 😪

@msaniitz5588 6 ай бұрын

@@dugebuwembo I LOVE this comment. Exactly! No culture is actually static, not even our African ones. Yes, one shouldn't have to fix what isn't broke, but every culture should be able to adjust with change, and to continually re-assess whether it's truly meeting the best needs of everyone involved.

@onyekaohaka1198 10 күн бұрын

She is right

@rolandihaza505 5 ай бұрын

No matter how educated you are in the Benin Kingdom, you have to respect the culture and traditions. Keep your education to yourself. That's why the Monarch still continues, and respected worldwide. She should strengthen the Igbo culture and not destroy it

@tristankasalu2107 Жыл бұрын

This one was one of those rebellious girls ,that girl who is always speaking back to elders

@TheCeciD Жыл бұрын

They’re the type of women who create change in the history ❤

@bantuspirituality4728 Жыл бұрын

@@TheCeciDbut is it Spiritually righteous?

@pelumiadelaja Жыл бұрын

@@bantuspirituality4728spiritually righteous how? Did the Bible or Quran say only women should kneel or that the kolanut in gatherings is for me? In what part of these holy books was it stated?

@olushayotriumph 9 ай бұрын

She's a cursed woman. To the woman He said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you.” - Ge 3:16

@hmuteka1 9 ай бұрын

@@olushayotriumphwell well well. It’s a good thing we live in the 21st century where….(wait for it)…….(keep waiting)…………………………………………………………………women have rights 😂. We can initiate divorce if we end up with a guy who was hiding his shitty personality. We can get jobs and support ourselves. Buy our own homes and vehicles. Hell we can even choose to be single mothers if we don’t want men in our lives. Tell me what is it that a man brings to the relationship that a woman can’t get herself. Your time is up and the sooner you accept that the faster your inner turmoil will calm down. 😂

@mthabisisibanda8149 5 ай бұрын

Kneeling is a strength...not a weakness

@kolaqhazimedia Жыл бұрын

A colonized mind, kneeling is not derragatory, men also prostrate, if you don’t respect elders , you are not African

@everythingentertainmenttv7910 8 ай бұрын

U get am right

@Profitfromcoaching 6 ай бұрын

I think you're describing Yoruba culture and not Igbo culture. A different context and different argument.

@msaniitz5588 6 ай бұрын

Within my ethnic group in East Africa, men would sort of bow with clasped hands, while women would kneel. It didn't take long for the men to stop bowing, while the girls still had to keep on kneeling (granted, even that is not done is ardently as before ... which I personally love). I agree with the importance of showing respect, though. That part is still there.

@DS-zg6ym 6 ай бұрын

Wow she looks every bit like the queen of Egypt so beautiful 😍 🔥

@DS-zg6ym 6 ай бұрын

@@denkanator I don't care what part of the black 🖤 continent she is from she's still a cosmic African Queen belonging to the stars ✨

@DS-zg6ym 6 ай бұрын

@@denkanator what artifact thought 💭🤔 did you get that from? The whole black continent that includes Egypt landscapes are seeded by the black seeds of the black man sense antiquity 🔥

@user-md5kq5hg6k 6 ай бұрын

Well done, one step at a time.

@gabrieludochukwukanmamicha5782 2 ай бұрын

Igbo culture does not say that women are not full human beings. There are things for women, and there are things for men. Even in some heavy work, men are made to bear the heavier weight. Would you like to bear weight that men carry or to be treated with consideration that you are a woman? Modify culture with sense. Do not just gradually bring in feminism into culture.

@junnebaron8104 5 ай бұрын

a fabulous representation sis🎉

@omowumiayotunde8080 5 ай бұрын

sensual wisdom puffs u up and makes u challenge everything but Divine Wisdom levels ur head and keep u learning.

@arizonaaliasofficial4733 9 ай бұрын

She wants Men and Women to be EQUAL but Women do not fight wars defend or build the Village. I think she is Wise sometimes she wants this False Equivalency. Men do what Women DO NOT WANT TO DO. Women will always be glorified for what is in their NATURE, child birth and nurturing but Men have to BECOME SOMETHING TO BE CELEBRATED. Men are NOT superior to women but Play a DIFFERENT ROLE and this is a role Modern Women are jealous of UNTIL THEY ARE PLACED INTO THAT ROLE AND FEEL THE FULL BURDEN OF THAT POSITION 🙏🏿

@lisa6356 6 ай бұрын

So having rights is the problem, got it. Men just date other men and have babie with each other. Women are waking up. The birth rate will soo start going down in Africa. Most men don't even like women. This is why I'm hoping the alphabet people will go to the continent next so men can be free to f*ck each and leave women a lone.

@dugebuwembo 6 ай бұрын

Women birth future generations via their wombs, protecting us at our most vulnerable through motherhood women nurture & transmit culture and value to their children. Where would we be without our mothers? As wives they look after & support their husbands. Their role is critical in society, within the family unit, their breast sustains and builds our immune systems, without women there is no family, no children, no future. Shame on you for failing to see their value in society!

@dugebuwembo 6 ай бұрын

Yet the Amazons of dahomey fought wars, it was women who through peaceful protest ended the civil war in Liberia 🇱🇷. & by the way in numerous African cultures women are responsible for building the homestead and participate in the construction of & maintenance of buildings. This is the case across the Sahel in towns like Timbuktu and Djenne. Your views are antiquated.

@brinydemon0321 5 ай бұрын

@@dugebuwemboexception, not the rule. I long for the day when men will finally relax and let women take over. Then we will see who will clean up the mess. Everyone is a feminist until its time to fight for your country.

@paulbup726 2 ай бұрын

I am with her 💯 %. Some of these male dominated behaviours of the African culture were imported distortions to our culture reflecting the dominating ways of our conquerors. UBUNTU ❤

@solfloyd7086 Жыл бұрын

Feminist o Non sensenist, in some cultures it’s disrespectful. Kneeling sometimes doesn’t mean men is better than women.

@tentaplayz3691 Жыл бұрын

Exactly lol don't mind her

@TheCeciD Жыл бұрын

They why is it that only women kneels?

@lisa6356 6 ай бұрын

@@TheCeciDbecause women are less in that culture

@naturalhandcraftedskincare1855 5 ай бұрын

Well said dear sis. I really appreciate my culture as muganda woman though i have always been against the kneeling business I don't allow my children to kneel for me as our culture stipulates and i will not allow my daughters in law to do same It is sad in my culture even on rainy day women have to kneel for almost every one as a sign of respect I am with this sis on this

@oluwayemisiakaaka3163 5 ай бұрын

She is an Eagle. Love you dear!

@ceoma1354 6 ай бұрын

Kneeling is not an igbo culture. We only kneel on your wedding day. The man kneels too with his wife to be blessed. Other than that we dont kneel.

@goraytaylor 6 ай бұрын

l love her voice

@catherinekeke9813 6 ай бұрын

Let our tradition be. Don't show me the kolanut, show only the men😂

@pdm8446 5 ай бұрын

I am an Igbo woman and I wonder how showing me the kolanut will help my life, but issorite!

@keneekenee5706 5 ай бұрын

You are funny

@KwekuTheTraveller 5 ай бұрын

Honestly, I think we should leave certain things the way they are. One day they’ll tell us that women should start paying groom price😭 Even in the Bible, God put men as the head. It doesn’t make the woman any less of a human, but what do I know. God abeg o

@keneekenee5706 5 ай бұрын

@@KwekuTheTraveller You are very right, the culture of in the Bible days is very close to that of the Africans. Our culture is different, and that's what makes us unique and different. Most people are angry with Ayra Sta because she didn't kneel down to greet an elderly man, King Sunny Ade because we are Africans and we have a culture. And our culture is sweet

@1maggotbrain 2 ай бұрын

Love this brilliant beautiful sisters message!

@husseinmtende6575 5 ай бұрын

I do apologize for this and suddenly she does not represent the bantu people

@judeomonsakele4534 Ай бұрын

Women and men are equally human, in my opinion. Gender parity in society is something I have always supported. It is, however, stupid to fail to recognize the complementary roles that each gender must play in society. That is natural, so even the wild beasts do not find it problematic.

@imnotanalien7839 Ай бұрын

Do women work in the mines, are they construction workers, in the military? That is where the inequality is! It is unfair that only men are digging in mines. Women should be doing the dangerous jobs too! That’s equality!

@favouroladele0802 20 күн бұрын

Yes women do

@michaelmukopi8347 6 ай бұрын

Roe christians the bible does not subscrible to those weatern human rights claims. Bibke among many things twlls womwn ro submit to hubby and asks man to love his wife as Christ loved the church. That is balance and final

@nafurtetmaat8737 5 ай бұрын

People quote this same bible where god said man needed a help meet. Which means he wasn't getting it right. Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche and women like her are here to help.

@user-sj5yq5tz7z 5 ай бұрын

God created men and women and assigned each complimentary roles to play.You cant all be doing the same thing.Don’t confuse western values with African values.Physically men are the same world over but what e.g.makes Japanese Japanese,Chinese Chinese Arabs Arabs is their intrinsic values.