—Quote 1 (for duckrabbit)
…someone in america said to me “it was such a shame that nigerian men were physically abusive like the father character in your novel”. I replied that I had just read an American novel called American Psycho and that ‘it was such a shame that all young american men were serial murderers’….
One of the most applauded new voices in fiction, Nigerian writer and Orange Prize-winner Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie presented the 2009 Opening Address entitled The Danger of a Single Story.
Recorded live at the Sydney Theatre on Wednesday, May 20 2009.
Here is the link, jump 4 minutes in, as the main speech begins approximately 4 minutes into the recording.
