WE SHOULD ALL

BE FEMINISTS
ChimamandaNgoziAdichi
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Your TASK :

Adichies

Watch the video

from

(28:35- end) to listen to the end of

talk .

Take information about :

the word feminist (2 different definitions given)

- A feminist

is

who believes in the social, political

a person

and economic equality of the sexes.

- A feminist is a man or

a woman who says there is a

problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must

do better .
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichies relatives ( 2 mentioned )

Quote her !

She

first mentions

her great-grandmother who ran away from the

house of the man she did not want to marry

and who married

the man of her choice , she refused, protested , spoke up

whenever she felt she was being deprived of access of land.
She then mentions her brother, Kenny . She describes him as a
kind, good-looking , lovely man who is very masculine.
What were their link with feminism ?

Her great-grandmother didnt know the word feminist , but was a

feminist. As for her brother, she says hes the best feminist, even if
he is very masculine.
Explain why people laugh and applaud .

People laugh and applaud because Chimamanda

surprising, daring thing : a feminist
man.

Adiche says a

is not only a woman, but a