Chimamanda Adichie on the Death of Good Faith

Offline with Jon Favreau

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🗓️ 16 January 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This week, the writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie joins Jon to talk through the viral essay on social media that she wrote last June. The two discuss what compelled her to write that essay, how the internet has changed the way we interact with ideas, and the changes she’s seen in recent literature.

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0:00.0	It seems to me that literature is the last thing
0:02.0	that we can depend on to tell us the truth about who we are.
0:05.2	Because politics can no longer do that.
0:07.4	Repoliticians have to lie.
0:09.3	I mean, they have to.
0:13.0	I'm not talking about your speeches, John.
0:15.4	No, I know.
0:16.4	I'm not saying you had to tell us a few burnished lies
0:21.3	because Brother Barat has to say what he had to say.
0:24.0	No.
0:25.7	I'm John Fabro. Welcome to Offline.
0:30.1	Hey, everyone.
0:30.9	My guess this week is Chimamanda and Gozy Adice,
0:33.7	a Nigerian feminist and writer of novels, short stories,
0:36.8	and nonfiction.
0:38.1	In 2009, she gave a speech about cultural representation
0:41.1	called The Danger of a Single Story
0:43.2	that's become one of the most viewed TED Talks of all time.
0:46.3	A few years later, she delivered another speech called
0:48.7	We Should All Be Feminists that became so famous
0:51.2	it was sampled by Beyonce for the song Flawless.
0:54.5	So why am I interviewing her for Offline?
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