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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Nigerian author of the best seller Americanah is out with a new book, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

This is a book about how to raise a feminist. Now that you’re a mother of a girl yourself, what has surprised you? How I’ve never loved like this. Also how ideology doesn’t neatly match real life. Here’s an example: I don’t particularly like the idea of girls wearing pink, and I don’t find pink very attractive. When my child is old enough to

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