Nigerian author and feminist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has disclosed the reason why she stated that she is more angrier at sexism than at racism.
She disclosed this at Esquire Townhouse with Breitling where she sat for a wide-ranging interview.
Chimamanda also touched on Melania Trump‘s visit to Africa as she revealed why she believes the US first lady is a racist.
A section of the interview saw her express her unwavering support for the Obamas and why she thinks masculinity is a “hard, small cage”.
When asked why she is more angrier about sexism than she is about racism, Chimamanda replied:
”I said that because in my own very personal space, the people I love, the people I’m close to, my family, my freinds all get race. So, I’ve never with them had to make a case for why something was racist.
So, I’m in my circle of friends – White people, Black people, Asian people, Hispanic people – and something happens to do with blackness and immediately we all get it.
But with gender, I find, that with the people I love, I’m constantly being expected to make the case – the ways in which women are reduced, the ways in which authority in a woman is judged much more differently than authority in a man. And I find I’m constantly being asked by the people that I love – so I’m not talking about sort of, you know, anonymous people – to make that case. And it gets emotionally exhausting because I dont feel that I have the kind of effortless support that I have when I talk about race.”
