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Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
- Narrated by: January Lavoy
- Length: 1 hr and 1 min
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Politics & Social Sciences, Politics & Government
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Publisher's Summary
From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today - written as a letter to a friend.
I have some suggestions for how to raise Chizalum. But remember that you might do all the things I suggest, and she will still turn out to be different from what you hoped, because sometimes life just does its thing. What matters is that you try.
In We Should All be Feminists, her eloquently argued and much admired essay of 2014, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie proposed that if we want a fairer world we need to raise our sons and daughters differently. Here, in this remarkable new book, Adichie replies by letter to a friend's request for help on how to bring up her newborn baby girl as a feminist. With its 15 pieces of practical advice, it goes right to the heart of sexual politics in the 21st century.
Critic Reviews
"The book I'd press into the hands of girls and boys, as an inspiration for a future 'world of happier men and happier women who are truer to themselves'." (Books of the Year, Independent)
"A writer with a great deal to say." ( The Times)
"Here is a new writer endowed with the gift of ancient storytellers." (Chinua Achebe)
"Adiche [has] virtuosity, boundless empathy and searing social acuity." (Dave Eggers)
"Adichie is terrific on human interactions.... Adichie's writing always has an elegant shimmer to it.... Wise, entertaining and unendingly perceptive." ( Independent on Sunday)
"[Adichie] is recording the history of her country. She is fortunate - and we, her readers, are even luckier." (Edmund White)
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- Nicolette
- 29-08-2021
YES YES YES!!
Every man woman and child should know these fundamentals. Especially to be read by young women and men!!!
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- Madeline Bradley
- 21-06-2021
Every mother & daughter should read this book
I absolutely loved this book. Thank you so much Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for writing this book. Highly recommend. This is going to be my go-to gift for my close friends becoming new mums to daughters.
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- Melinda - YarnderWoman
- 13-03-2018
A must-listen for every human
Fantastic. Specific examples of how all people can live with equality for all. (Because feminism is, of course, about equality for women and men.)
I definitely recommend it.
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- Nwosu Ifeanyi Jude
- 28-02-2021
Good read.
I did enjoy every part of the short book, I must say a lot was revealed in this book that cairn my attention.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-08-2019
Exceptional
This book should be read by every person, of every age. It literally challenges ideals that you probably weren't even aware you had!
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- Aimara
- 11-02-2019
wonderful
The suggestions here are present and valid for our society, girls need to be taught this to see a better future for everybody.
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- Aline RS
- 04-12-2018
This book is incredible!
I am going to have a daughter soon, so I bought this amazing book. I think once in a while I will have to listen to it again, just to memorize all the incredible suggestions the author gives!
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- Kimaya
- 18-11-2018
Given me plenty to think about
An ambitious list, even for those not raising a baby girl to be a feminist. I am a twenty six year old woman and even I have questions about whether I’m feminist enough or the right kind of feminist or worry that these are the wrong type of questions to be had in the first place. The suggestions in the book have made me question some of my existing patterns of thought and brought up more than a few things that I now look at with a different perspective.
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- Jennifer T
- 11-11-2018
Lovely book and a must read for both women and men
This book has been a fantastic read and a first step into broadening my horizons not as a woman but as a human being.
Often feminism has been marketed as a women-only movement, as something that benefits women while lessening men. I never agreed with that so I ended up thinking feminism was not for me.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie gives us a peak into a way of thinking that is much more modern and more into the idea of equality of all. I grew up in a small city in the centre of Italy and I was shocked finding out how much this book speaks to me about my upbringing.
I will definitely recommend the book and probably buy some copies for my friends and family for Christmas.
January Lavoy did a fantastic job reading the book.
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-09-2018
A letter I will always treasure
A letter i would gladly share with my daughter. Just wish that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie herself read the audiobook. I am sure if she did it would carry the weight it deserves.
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- Margaret
- 12-04-2017
Just one thing missing
It was a bit disappointing as a Nigerian to listen to this particular book being read by an American woman who made little to no episode to pronounce names or places correctly but otherwise content wise and the tone and pace of the reading was excellent
14 people found this helpful
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- Cheryl-Jane
- 18-04-2017
Love the advice
Love, love love this book. I will be revisiting it each year and passing on the lessons to my daughters. My only comment with the audible version is that I wish they had found a narrator with a more Nigerian accent.
7 people found this helpful
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- denise elliot
- 17-01-2019
brilliant, still needed
loved this. messages as relevant now as before worldwide. Would have loved a reader with a Nigerian accent as in Ameriicanah.
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- KLty
- 13-05-2021
Awesome (but for the narration choice)
I wish Chimamanda Ngoze Adichie had read it herself. It was a bit jarring that the narrator mispronounced Lagos and plait etc.
But the book is perfect and needs to be read by every human.
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-05-2021
Perfect!
I wish I had read this before I had my daughter, or when she was a baby, a lovely accessible feminist manifesto, gentle and considered, but also not afraid of a little bit of “angry” too.
I will recommend this to my friends and family
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- Hannah Solo
- 26-04-2021
A "must read" for every parent to be
A beautiful book, very well read. So much insight into a very important time in many peoples lives. Every parent to be should read or listen to this book to ensure the next generation is well rounded and able to be themselves.
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- Coz
- 04-04-2021
Loved this!
Short, to the point, and what great thinking points they were!! Thank you Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie!
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-03-2021
must read
loud and clear manifesto. Very well written. January has done justification by reading it. keep writing Adichie.
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- Harmoni
- 27-10-2020
Amazing and insightful!
I loved this book, it was thought provoking, affirmative and refreshing. Will definitely be sharing with all the young women in my life!
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- Eleanor
- 19-08-2020
Concise and worth a listen (even if you don’t have children)
This is such a concise book it’s more like a manifesto. I don’t have children but I loved the book and the advice. I would have preferred perhaps Chimamanda herself to read the book or at least and African woman who could pronounce the African names. But honestly the American narrator didn’t take anything away from the inspiring and empowering lessons in this book. It’s so short I think everyone should find the time to listen to this.
1 person found this helpful
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