S.R.Activity:

When we are referring post colonial study we are asking  to watch  videos  of Nigeran writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie  and write our learning output.  this  task given as a sunday reading activity assign by Dr. Dilip Barad sir.

 About Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie born 15 September 1977) is a Nigeran writer whose works include novels, short stories and nonfiction.She was described in The Times literatry supplement as "the most prominent" of a "procession of critically acclaimed young anglophone authors [which] is succeeding in attracting a new generation of readers to African literature" particularly in her second home, the united states.

Adichie has written the novels Purple Hibiscus (2003), Half of yellow sun  (2006), and the short story collection The thing around your neck (2009), and the book-length essay we should all be feminists (2014). Her most recent books are A feminist manifesto in Fifteen suggestion i (2017), Zikora (2020) and Notes on Grief(2021).

In 2008, she was awarded a MacArthar Genius Grant  She was the recipient of the Pen Pinter Prize in 2018

She has delivered two landmark TED talks: her 2009 TED Talk The Danger of A Single Story and her 2012 TEDx Euston talk We Should All Be Feminists, which started a worldwide conversation about feminism and was published as a book in 2014.

Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, was published in March 2017.

1.About Dangers  of Single story

In  the first video of dangers of single she is talking about that she is inspired from African writers. her  character of single story is white and also with blue eyed. she is also reveled that her characters of story are like her self.

Some examples from Literature

she is taking some examples from literature like Jane eyre, Bartha  Mason ,Charlotte Bronte are there. she  is also referred power. Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person. 

Referance of palestinian poet: Mourid  Barghouti

The Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti writes that 

if you want to dispossess a people, the simplest way to do it is to tell their story and to start with, "secondly." Start the story with the arrows of the Native Americans, and not with the arrival of the British, and you have an entirely different story. 

Start the story with the failure of the African state, and not with the colonial creation of the African state, and you have an entirely different story

 2.Why we all should feminists?

in the second video she talks about her friend okolama's opinion she is first person  who told chimananda nagozi as a feminist. here she talks about that men and women are different .she also talks about gender matters in all over the world and ofcourse for this gender biases society plays very important. if it can be said that society became barrier for women or girls.

Girls are always taught that become good material after marriage. she should follow all the rules and be A Home maker for her family. there  is many feminist movies or ads and also serials are there but ultimately women are showing as good wife material instead of good employee. 

Chimamanda Ngozi  also talks about there is difference between raising girls and boys this idea is very truly showed in one movie  Bandrinath ki Dulhania directed by Shashank Khaitan.

in  the later part she talks about masculinity she talking about that if boy and girl are going outside the boy is always expected to pay money  to prove his masculinity. in the rover by Aphra behn there is sword as a symbol of masculinity. in short boy have to always prove his masculinity.

3.Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie addresses Harvard's Class of 2018

Above all else do not lie.” r don’t lie too often, which is really to say tell the truth. But lying, the word, the idea, the act has such political potency in America today, but it somehow feels more apt. Above all else do not lie.

It is hard to tell ourselves the truth about our failures, our fragilities, our uncertainties. It is hard to tell ourselves that maybe we haven’t done the best that we can. It is hard to tell ourselves the truth of our emotions that maybe what we feel is hurt rather than anger, that maybe it is time to close the chapter of a relationship and walk away. And yet when we do, we are the better off for it.