Exactly! The kind of voice I imagine Mother Nature would have.

@@BrunosSquirrel Yes! 👏🏾

Yes!! To me it seems she is very wise too!!

Absolutely!!!!!!!! Couldn’t agree more

Shes a leader.I can feel the authority also

That's what caught my attention - whenever she talks about race or feminism she captures the complexity of these issues in a way I haven't seen before

Elle p.. She is very articulate, impeccable communication skills.

She grew up in a university campus and the parents were both educators. The apple truly does not fall far from the tree.

@Elle. During my growing up, women were angry, and frustrated, and their message versus femminism was clearly different and that's what am accostume with. So yeah, she's African, Nigerian, and westernize enacted, so she had the experience, therefore!.....😝😜

??what..?!

Waw? How about you turn that love towards The Creator and not a Human being. Respect her for her efforts for Africa and women but no one is perfect so calm down with your words because on The Day of Judgement when you stand infront of our Creator she cannot help you. Just some advice.

Yess! So do I.

Her? She looks and sounds like a man. She clearly has balls

@@daudDC500 Please go away,, and advice yourself first to not be judgemental. Imagine all the trouble you went through because someone expressed her affection or fondness towards another,, in the best possible way she could.😬👎👎👎

Is it wrong to love someone?love isn't only exclusive to God, don't be naive

Yess that roast brought me here😂

Yesss

Exactly!!!

That interview was sooooo cringe 😖

Yes... Me...

Amen. We need more of this, not gangsta people.

melanin-filled individuals? Are you trying to really avoid re-using the same word or what? That is one strange way to describe black people if I have ever heard one :D

hauptmann25 lmao you saw right through me. It's my essay writing language; avoid sounding monotonous.

Sims Mchako then I’d recommend the podcast “Not Your African Cliche”. It’s pretty cool.

Trevor noah is hardly melanin-filled

🤗🤗🤗😘😘😘😘😘

EZE THE GREAT so her books being best sellers and gaining the attention of the world don't make you feel proud as a Nigerian?

I am sorry, however, you 'are Israeli'. Not much to be proud of there. :-(

Nigerians are proud people and have much respect for them!

I think she should talk more about the Nigerian bad economy and its bad leaders, and also speak out about the ill treatment and suffering of the people. These, I think will be more effective and actions taken instead of this feminist BS.

And you, too, should write more!!

Feminism is inherently a racist movement, how quickly people forget that feminism has absolutely NOTHING to do with empowering a woman at all! That's a common misconception... Look where feminism started and how it spread to USA, pure and utter garbage...

I used to support feminism but western feminism became poison. Let's have convo about 'REAL' equality or just drop the whole thing.

I feel like whenever anyone sniggers or laughs at the word 'feminism' they should be asked 'so you believe women AREN'T equals and are second-class citizens then?'

@@nrarr2787 Whatever you *feel* makes you keep fighting, go for it...men just no longer support dishonest and toxic feminism. Go and have a convo with your species about what it is you guys are *actually* trying to achieve as a unit, then come back and present your arguments to us 'logically'. Until then, we don't have to support you, or explain why we're not getting involved with your fight. You don't need men, right? We understand that now so pls go and fight your own fight.

@ANYOGO ISIDORE I thought 1:15 kinda did that. But also, she's promoting her book on feminism. Am sure the book does the trick.

'Uncompromising' accent. That is a refreshing choice of words.

Haha lol I’m struggling with that. Sometimes I don’t care, but sometimes I just switch and sound American, because then people seem to pay more attention, and not ask me where I’m from lol.

@@okedstarable Don't. Seriously! I LOVE the African accent! English sounds gorgeous in an African accent. It is even better than Northern Irish!

Nice! Really uncompromising accent...

@@okedstarable same, im struggling with this. When I'm really nervous my Nigerian accent comes out and then people stare at me weirdly

What's written on page 12?

@@sonofgod2656 The Third Suggestion. "Teach her the idea of 'gender roles' is absolute nonsense".

@@mhuyett7990 why is it nonsense...

@@bibaolaitan5189 One way she expands that is saying that just because a person has a vagina doesn't make them able to cook. That gender roles vary in societies and can be constricting for males and females.

@@mhuyett7990 How about drinking?

Oooo please do. I'm Nigerian and I recommend purple hibiscus

@@chelseaawang7720 thank you for the recommendation 😊 I’ll read it

I recommend her novel 'Americana'

@@janewambui2065 thank you so much for the recommendation 😊…after the recommendation of @Chelsea Awang I got the audible version of purple hibiscus and I loved it 🥰 I tried finding Americanah on audible but only found summary versions or French and Spanish versions … my French isn’t that great so I guess I’m gonna try and get an electronic book instead

Half of a yellow sun is phenomenal as well...

Well put!

Giorgia M love your comments... Deary

Awesome

Yes indeed she's eloquent. I've heard her speak before but this is the first I really LISTENED to her. I wish the interview was longer.

@@blessings4eva863 Yo can watch/listen, We All Should Be feminists. It's wonderful too.

Me too! Fantastic woman! "You can be feminene and feminist " !

Me too, her voice makes me feel calm and safe

Same, but better late then never 🙌🏾🙌🏾

Same here. Very intriguing and alluring woman.

Welcome aboard, enjoy

She’s a wonderful writer, I recommend her novel, Americanah

ditto

He didn't actually but my boy came pretty close

Onajite Taire He pronounced it CORRECTLY, maybe your ears need cleaning😂😂

You're 'splaining to a Nigerian that a Nigerian name was pronounced correctly when when they say it wasn't? Carry on. Trevor did a good job and I appreciate that. Close enough to the real thing from someone who doesn't speak her language.

Ope Akapo Trevor speaks* Nigerian*, along with FOUR other languages, now YOU carry on😉

Nia Imani-Diarra Nigerian? 😐 🤔

Amazing, when black people speak someone has to talk about how eloquent...never once did I ever hear anyone say how eloquent Hillary Clinton is or Elizabeth Warren...etc.

@@anthonyp9591 I was about to say the same thing. Why do people always find it necessary to comment on the eloquence, and racial beauty of black people in an attempt to not sound racist. That only makes you seem more racist because you're actually objectifying this woman who is so much more than her "sunbathed" complexion and lovely hair and poised demeanor.

Waaa, nice compliment

@@meloworx221 I get the argument you are making but you are perhaps being abit ungenerous by calling it objectification. You don't really know what is going on in their mind. Maybe the poster is dealing with her foreign(to the poster) looks emotionally by propping up her image with a romantic aura. Maybe there is an element of "objectification" there but you are really hampering good race relations by pointing out every hamfisted compliment white people make. Im a European and I wouldn't mind being exoticised positively by foreigners. Because I'm privileged enough not to be bothered by that. Had the playing field been even among whites and blacks in the first place this wouldn't be a problem. Then there is the cultural aspect. Cultures are different. I don't know much about Nigeria myself. I know they have a thriving film business, they like colourful clothes and Fela Kuti was popular back in the day. But me looking at Nigerian culture and being struck by the things that seem novel to me as an outsider does not necessarily make me a bigot....I hope. You are free to do the same if you ever visit a Nordic country.

@@anthonyp9591 When i see Hilary Clinton speak Nigerian effortlessly, I'll make sure to complement her.

Yes, I loved it...even as a a woman of color from America, I had to rewind and hear it again. Her name is beautiful...and I also wanted to know how to pronounce it correctly.

@@allysonjones8234 i wish i could help you with that. but i can just translate her names for you. Ngozi means Blessing. Chimamanda means My God will never fail. And her last name which is Adichie, means the child that will carry on my legacy. That is probably her Dads name.

Igbo kwenu😌🇳🇬

@@chidinmaebere3560 na so my sister. lol

@@ezenwaperfect 😁

Yes plz ,no more cardi b , Megan stallion and all others

Nice hearing this...

@@olivierbredenstein2726 Cardi and Megan are rappers, not writers. No comparison. Different professions.

Well dressed too.

It’s interesting how you’ve managed to be anti-feminist while commenting under a video about feminist thought. PS: 🇳🇬🇳🇬

My sentiments exactly!

I really like the way she communicates. Pretty is easy, but this woman has a brain and it's gorgeous!

Are you sure it's all hers?

She has a brain and a very nice package for all that inner beauty.

There is always somebody eager to find flaws in somebody that shines.

You cannot expect her to be every women or every woman to be her. However, she is a woman to be admired

So much truth here 🙌 🙌

💯💯💯

Funny how she complains about men defining women, then she defends non trans people defining trans people. She ain't a feminist, she's a capitalist bigot who uses colonialism to sell her product.

Purple hibiscus is the only book my teacher didn't force me to read in secondary school

SINBAD saaaammmmeee haha. Went to secondary school in Nigeria for 3 years and our literature books were her books. What a privilege.

Her critical essays & academic writings are also just beyond amazing 😊

purple hibiscus😍

purple hibiscus 👍💯

And the sad thing is, most people are only going to think "Was she in Black Panther?"

Insignificant360 You should not talk to most people...

Yes! Serene and wise. A special human being who makes me want to be more.

My feeling EXACTLY. She is amazingly beautiful, graceful and attractive, and at the same time also intelligent, educated, eloquent, brave and wise. Her physical beauty is so radiant because it is illuminated by an equally beautiful personality. Chimamanda has it all. I find her fascinating.

Really?how long ago was this? And how old are u?

@@valzzy138 Am 24 now, had to read her novels in primary school. She has been writing for a while now.

I'm surprised I never really heard about her until recently...and having looked her up i now realise why ..she's older than me and I'm older than you...lol I guess when I was back in Nigeria I read the Wole Soyinkas and the Chinua Achebes novels ..but Chimamanda deserves her place in the echelon of writers that Nigeria has produced..proud of her..

Talk about your school, not generalizing as if all schools are involved. By the way, Which schools are you talking about or which school did you attend?

@@nmg1909 Nnamdi, relax.

She's such a CLASS✨👌

Mee

Agreed. Also her bone structure on that face though. 🤩😍

Ejuesti Bubu read his autobiography!!

Ejuesti Bubu he even managed to be respectful towards Tomi Lahren😂😂😂

The African yes he did considering the adverse circumstances

princessmargarette18 read it !!! now one of my top three favourite books

Ejuesti Bubu 👍💯

She is amazing

What is it about Michelle Obama that makes her so lovable? I don’t get it. I watched her in that purple outfit on Inauguration Day and I was internally screaming. Well, both Obamas are just so lovely.

Fabulous line up

This will be my new slogan!!!

She is gorgeous and smart.

@mywelcomeinbox. Agreed, she is stunning & exceedingly brilliant. But I don’t know if that quote made me hungry or horny😁.

This woman is stunning and smart. I second that.

I love this quote.

Namibia I'm coming to put my country

Your mom is awesome. Gotta love them!

You're lucky your mom is like that.

Your mother wasn’t a low key feminist, she was a feminist. That is exactly what feminism is. There aren’t really different degrees of feminism. Feminism is very simply defined as all humans have equal value and all humans need to be treated with respect, and seen as individuals, regardless of their sex. Everyone should be a feminist. Feminism is something all people and all societies should strive for, because you cannot have freedom or advanced civilization without it. Sexism is really a terrible crime against all humanity. There is nothing good about sexism, and no one should be proud of sexism, or sexist behavior. However, feminism also does not mean that women should be treated as if they are men, because that is also harmful to women, because they are not men, they have unique needs from men and those needs must be met. Denying women their needs is still sexism. Equal and identical are not the same thing. Women should be seen and treated as equal to men, but they should not be seen as, or treated identical to men. For example women need menstrual products, and pregnancy accommodations, men don’t. To not give women those things would harm them. Society, including the work place, needs to meet the needs of women, while still treating women as equal in value to men.

Your mum was (and is) a gem.

Wish I had a mom like yours. Thats all I really wanted.

He has a very nice laugh. It comes from the heart and it does not come without him thinking it is funny.

Watch some panel shows with Jimmy Carr

aurelia eavum Mate, I said a "hearty laugh", not a scary live action ventriloquist choking on air! 😂

He has an adorable laugh..

+KingKhanAbz Trevor's laugh (like most chat show hosts) sounded fake and forced.

That's so beautiful....love from Ghana

God bless your papa with good health,happy birthday to him

Chido 🙌

This may be late, but I wish him happy birthday and great years ahead. From Nigeria. 🇳🇬♥️💯

Hmmm

O A they are all of that even without education...

Not true she is rare and lovely

Thelma Thomas no she’s not rare.

@@avekatumba4794 Well you have not being to Nigeria then,Nigerian women are totally different from every other african woman that I have met,confidence and intelligence is in their gene.

@@avekatumba4794, as Sly says, have a look at Nigerian women. Chimamanda is stellar but by no means 'rare' among us!

Marlon Davidson You read it in Jamaica? 😳

Yes.. I'm from Jamaica as well and had to read that very novel.. because of school.. I fell in love with that book and other books she has written..

I'm from nigeria, and I read it Six times,word to word.

Try her book Americana.

OG that’s my book

Why do you protect woman and children more than men? The answer is simple, survival and continuity, take an example were you have a group 10 men and 10 women, now they have to do something dangerous and one part of the group will die, lets say that the men does it and that 9 of them dies and same if women those it 9 of them die, now wich of the 2 group have the higher chance to survive and grow back? The 1H 10W or the 10M 1W?

I do not like to look down on others, yet, when people are so narrow minded, I pity them. Something tells me that all that knowledge you have can drown all those empty comments. congratulations.

Maryse thank you! These are very sweet words to hear. I really appreciate the kindness 🙏🏼

My dear, shake his comments off. Truth is when the man is gone only your certificate will be with you.

Please come up and update us from time to time on your many glorious achievements. I know they will be numerous . Proud that your mother cut that toxic cancer off. Rise and continue to soar like the eagle that you are. Achieving much more than the ignorant ones could even imagine .

Congratulations!! Never let fragile, petty, insecure men (or women) limit you !

LanaGoesArt why do you use "but" in that sentence?

Because English is my 3rd language and I'm not as fluent as I wish I was? It made sence when I wrote it. What I wanted to express it, that I admire her way of speaking, the pronounciation as well as the clear sentences and of course her opinions.

LanaGoesArt she's not an illiterate lol

yeah, I need some audiobooks with her voice man

@@BiancaGomes_Martins she usually voices her own audiobooks. I know she did for "We Should All Be Feminists"

Lols. Legends has it that you are still shouting Naija ehh!

@@tommehtochukwu7556 yes ooo👐🏾

@@tommehtochukwu7556 😀

Abi ooo🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬👏🏽

Ehhhhhh.....me lm from 🇧🇼

For my family, it was my grandfather. He actually never asked if we were getting married. He instead asked "when are you getting your masters?" He absolutely hated some of as he called them "useless men" that my aunts dated. I am also Kenyan. Our Kikuyu grandfather was the person who heavily pushed education on every single one of us females. Heaven's forbid he found you skipping school.

Lydia Waweru OMG I'm assuming you're Kenyan, I'm Kenyan too and my father is also the biggest feminist I know and has always unconsciously and consciously instilled this in my sister, my brothers, and I. It gives me hope that there human beings out there who see this😊🇰🇪

You are super lucky!!

I feel like Kenyan fathers in general push us towards greatness regardless of gender.🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪

Can your dad adopt me? Mine is the most male chauvinistic man I ever knew. Haven't spoke to him in 2years.

You don't have to, we all have accents.

this comment makes absolutely no sense.

You made no sense.

Her voice reminds me mya angelo.

Its a nigerian accent

EZE get a job. That will make you great. Useless comments on KZfaq won’t

@@wakawakaqueen 👎👎👎

rosana conta3 🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼💩💩💩💩💩

@@wakawakaqueen says the sket doing the same

There's no such thing as an African voice....

Point of correct, Africa is winning not Nigeria.

No Nigeria is not winning though i respect her but Nigeria is not winning

Nigeria need a million more like her to fix the mess

point of correction, Biafra or Igbo is winning not Zoo called Nigeria

@@igwebenita1919 She does not stand up aganst the oppression of igbos. She has forgotten her people.

To play devil's advocate, the continuation of the human species depends on marriage and procreation but not advanced degrees

toplobster so you would ask that question a male person too, since a problem like declining birth rates is not only the women's fault obviously?

ZOMBIEZAHNpakuto I would say the declining birth date is a human problem, and not pin it on women. It takes two to tango lol

H A I agree with you. As I caveated, I was just taking the other side for conversation sake. Overpopulation is a bigger threat right now to the environment

Zwivhuya Sivhabu Thank you! 👍💯

😍😍

Rolled off smooth like butter!

I wish I could like your opinion a thousand times.

As a black woman...I just want to be able to wear my hair however I feel like it. I like a variety of crowns

I realized that and started my natural hair journey 8 months ago..😊

@SpankBuda woah the fuck? First of all i don't fucking owe anyone an explanation on why I straightened my fucking hair, its my fucking hair! I can do the fuck i want with it when the fuck i want! Y'all hair nazis are so fucking annoying. I have had so many types of hairstyles and had dreadlocks for a long time and decided to go natural because i fucking wanted to and you can go and choke on your opinions mtcheew

SpankBuda lol I don’t need to explain anything to you. I love my natural hair...And my personal power. I want to do what I want with my hair when I want to. It’s really not your concern. Imbecile. So sick of control freaks. Go find someone else to impose your ‘ideals’ on. Unless you gave birth to me...or put a ring on my finger you don’t get to tell me what to do with my body.

Nigeria is a curse on the Igbo nation. How can a "Tagbo" be proudly Nigerian?

@@annefranciselizabeth3840 madam do u want to take this outside lol

She's a Biafran/Igbo woman. Chimamanda Adichie, Chinua Achebe( the author of Things Fall Apart) ; and Ngozi Okonjo Iwuala( chairman WTO) are all Igbo. The Nigeria entity is a pullback to the promise and destiny to the Igbo. We need a progressive world, we want out of Nigeria.

I think everyone that is watching this video is crushing on her, even the people that gave a thumbs down. They just hate themselves for it.

They are transphobic, did you know that?

I agree. Lemme rewatch that TED Talk

Her speech was really spectacular.

Yes, my English Professor assigned her speech as an assignment and am so glad that she did.

It was powerful.

@@0506xjl me too

I was thinking the same thing!! Looks like they need to read the book 🤣

It's just that they don't listen I've seen comments on multiple videos and they say stuff like "it would've been a great video... if she actually discussed stuff" they only listen to what they want to listen to

I agree but then again there is nothing wrong with people complimenting her eloquence or appearance.....like aside from all the things she has said there are also other things that stand out about her.

Carol Ngunya there is nothing wrong with complimenting those attributes. However, when that becomes the primary feedback given and almost nothing is addressed about what she actually said, then that’s exactly the problem. I don’t know about you, but I would hate to spend 10 minutes in a public platform discussing ideas that are important to me, and all people say when I’m done is “you are so beautiful and eloquent.”

@@carolm5463 You've got to read her books on feminism or at least listen to her talks. Because Adachi finds this quite annoying/problematic. There will never be as many comments on a man's appearance while he's talking about something important to him. Yet judging from the comments that's all people can focus on. Read her books, Why We Should All Be Feminists & Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions. It'll open your eyes

Yes - intoxicating she is!

Representing women of colour 😍

She certainly has more things to get attracted to or to be admired for. ☺

Lol that's why Beyonce put that speech in her song

She is so eloquent and very poised, on top of the fact that her countenance is sunbathed, bronzed, and unspeakably flawless. What a graceful and intellectually refined woman! She is royalty and beauty, defined, and her hair is simply gorgeous!! Excellent interview on a very needful topic! 👏🏾💫👌🏾👑

Effortlessly 🥰

Thank you.

Big thanks for the recommendation! That conversation was great to watch.

Rikard Peterson I am so glad!!!

Thanks for the recommemdation!

Sorry to burst your bubble but there isn't. Rather, they've been molested and impregnated by jihadists.

Emeka Obasi shut the fuck up!

@@emekaobasi9766 Anuofia! Useless boy

I grew up with that idea and goal, and I’m about to turn 40 and I never found a husband. Thinking of success as something that depends on somebody else is a recipe for disaster. Even though I’m not as miserable as I thought I’d be (well, at least not most days), I don’t think I’ll ever shake off the feeling of failure.

What do you want? That should matter. Remember feminism gave you a choice. The modern feminists, the ones I’ve dealt with at least push their ideals on women and shame them for their choices. If you want a family go for it. If you want a great career go for it. Every choice is a trade off. Remember that.

Jamirah N Mubiru... That is because most women want to mothers.

@@apolokabali6718 that may be true but probably because that’s what we’re taught to want when we’re raised. This is also problematic and another part of the conversation.