This TEDx talk is a widely popular one where Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie offers her definition of feminism. This talk is witty, funny, and so well built. Most of the conference is about her personal experience in Nigeria and Africa, but it applies everywhere. About those little comments that make you feel judged for being a woman and only considered on that basis, those cliché sentences when you utter a slightly feminist point of view. This talk relates to a day-to-day experience for women. Very close to my heart and experience.
“He told me that people were saying that my novel was feminist and his advice to me was that I should never call myself a feminist because feminists are women who are unhappy because they cannot find husbands. So I decided to call myself “a happy feminist.” Then an academic, a Nigerian woman, told me that feminism was not our culture and that feminism wasn’t African, and that I was calling myself a feminist because I had been corrupted by “Western books”…Since feminism was un-African, I decided that I would now call myself “a happy African feminist.” At some point I was a happy African feminist who does not hate men and who likes lip gloss and who wears high heels for herself but not for men.”