Sunday reading Task

Hello readers:) This is sunday reading task this about watching three video and writing blog on that this video is by Chimamanda Nagozi

Chimamanda Nagozi

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ( born 15 September 1977) is a Nigerian writer whose works include novels, short stories and nonfiction. She was described in The Times Literary Supplement as "the most prominent" of a "procession of critically acclaimed young anglophone authors succeeding in attracting a new generation of readers to African literature", particularly in her second home, the United States.

Adichie, a feminist, has written the novels Purple Hibiscus (2003), Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), and Americanah (2013), 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 Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (2017), Zikora (2020) and Notes on Grief (2021).In 2008, she was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant. She was the recipient of the PEN Pinter Prize in 2018.

Video-1

People are from Africa, others feel sorry for them even if they do not know them. People from western world always have a single story of Africa:  In this single story, there was no possibility of Africans being similar to them in any way, no possibility of feelings more complex than pity, no possibility of a connection as human equals. Africa was from popular images, Africa was a place of beautiful landscapes, beautiful animals, and incomprehensible people, fighting senseless wars, dying of poverty and AIDS, unable to speak for themselves and waiting to be saved by a kind, white foreigner.

One writer John Lok. But what is important about his writing is that it represents the beginning of a tradition of telling African stories in the West: A tradition of Sub-Saharan Africa as a place of negatives, of difference, of darkness, of people who, in the words of the wonderful poet Rudyard Kipling, are "half devil, half child."two different writers reference used. 

Then she was talking about a single story and power. It is impossible to talk about the single story without talking about power. There is a word, an Igbo word, that I think about whenever I think about the power structures of the world, and it is "nkali." It's a noun that loosely translates to "to be greater than another." Like our economic and political worlds, stories too are defined by the principle of nkali: How they are told, who tells them, when they're told, how many stories are told, are really dependent on power.Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person. 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.In this reference we can see that there are many stories in India colonized by the British . If we write the first failure of  the Royal kingdom then the story is entirely different. Then she talks about the consequences of a single story. It robs people of dignity. It makes our recognition of our equal humanity difficult. It emphasizes how we are different rather than how we are similar.

Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.like some story made for recall the humanity and some story making ready to soldiers before going to battlefield.That when we reject the single story, when we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise.

Video-2

In this video she was talking about Feminism 

Feminists so heavy with baggage, negative baggage

Men and women are different.

We have different hormones.

We have different sexual organs

We have different biological abilities

52% of the World's Population is Female. But most positions of Power and prestige are Occupied by men.then she give one reference of Kenyan Nobel Peace Laureate. Wangari Maathai said: "The Higher you go The Fewer women there are"Gender as it Functions today is a grave, injustice how we raise boys we stifle the humanity of boys we define masculinity in a very narrow way, masculinity become this hard, small cage and we put boys inside the cage we teach boys to be afraid of fear, to be afraid of weakness of vulnerability Mask their true selves because they have to be in Nigerian Speak "hardMan"  If we seen with indian context they said boys

मर्द को कभी ददँ नहीं होता, 

लड़की की तरह रोना बंद कर, 

लडकीया रोती है, मर्द कभी नहीं रोते

In over Gujarati language they speak 

બાયલો(who act like Girls) 

For girls we teach them

You can have ambition, but not too much" You should aim to be Successful but not too Successful Otherwise you would threaten the Man if you are the breadwinner in your relationship with a man, you have to Pretend that you're not, especially in public Otherwise you will emasculate him. People around unmarried woman are force and pushed to make terrible choices The language of Marriage and relationship is often the language of Ownership rather than the language of Partnership. She talks about gender gap culture, Business or Corporation world then cooking best examples with Gender then Pampering child working woman and other lots of things she discusses. Then she come meaning of Feminism in dictionary and her own version. 

Feminism in dictionary:

A person  who believes in the social Political and economic equality of the sexes.

 

Her own version:

A feminist is a man or a woman who says "yes there's a problem with gender as it is today,

and we must fix it we must do better"

And that's why we should all be feminists. 

Video -3

This video is about Truth. She tells her story how one woman misPronounced her name. She tells about that incident because context matters. We now live in a culture out of a culture  of calling out a culture of outrage telling the truth but lying the word the idea the act has such political Potency. The truth about our failures Our Fragilities ou uncertainties it is hard to tell ourselves that maybe we haven't done the best that we can it is hard to tell that maybe we tell truth of our emotions that may be what we feel is hurt rather than anger that may it is time to

close the chapter of a Relationship Truth sometimes especially in Politicized spaces telling the truth will be an act of courage be courageous never set out  to Provoke for the sake of Provoking but never silence Yourself out of Fear that a truth You Speak. 

In all three video she gives her life experience incident as a example also she can about Nigeria and her cultural also she can wildly speak about America and political position of Nation she use various reference of many writers Africans, European writers and by her talk I can easily connected with over studies like with third world country and give them charity which example connected with cultural studies how the Western powerful nation are work also it is connected with postcolonial studies like their marginalized country and poor countries with example she use her American friend how she have prejudice about Africa is poor country they not have best English Education then second video about Feminism this word is not only related with Female this is important thing I learn and she talks about how our society raise boys and girls with different rules and regulation for girls more rules and for boys these less she was talking about Nagerian cultural but we can directly connected with our Indian culture also work same ways if we connected this feminism with post colonial studies every culture woman's are subaltern, marginalized gender. Third video about Importance of Truth in Post-truth era she was talking about truth and we have speak if there is something wrong and be powerful for speaking truth in over nowadays situation politics making decisions against humanity we have speak about truth. One line she speak I like most is.. 

Literature is my religion I have learned from literature. 

Chimamanda Nagozi personally I like her talks her knowledge and these three video is very informative and i learn many things. 

THANK YOU.....