Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (featuring Ta-Nehisi Coates)

The Atlantic Interview

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Society & Culture, Politics, News

4.4 • 977 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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In the inaugural episode of The Atlantic Interview, The Atlantic's editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg talks with the novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie about race, identity, and her reaction to a nervous interviewer calling her "Chimichanga." Atlantic correspondent Ta-Nehisi Coates makes a cameo. Read the transcript. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, and welcome to the Atlantic interview.
0:09.0	Each week I'm going to talk to a fascinating person and ask them a bunch of questions, and they're going to give me a bunch of fascinating answers and that's the entire concept of this new podcast.
0:18.0	Today we're going to listen to my interview with Chimimanda and Gy Adichie, the great Nigerian American novelist.
0:24.6	In America, I feel black with all of it's, all of the rubbish that comes with it.
0:30.8	And it's a special surprise, which is not a surprise anymore, that I'm about to tell you, we have
0:35.7	Tanahasi Coates from The Atlantic, who is not a great Nigerian American novelist, but is a great
0:40.4	writer nonetheless.
0:41.4	Chairman, my mind does much as I hate to say this is dead right.
0:45.0	It pains me to say that.
0:47.2	I spoke to Chimamanda and Tana-Hossi
0:49.0	a couple of weeks ago in Paris.
0:51.0	I like when people are actually honest. Wait hold on let me let me
0:53.6	we'll keep this on the thing. Welcome to the Atlantic interview I'm
0:56.7	Jeffrey Goldberg the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic and my guest today is
1:00.0	sorry because now you're gonna to do it to me.
1:03.8	I'm the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic,
1:06.0	and welcome to the Atlantic interview.
1:07.7	My guest today is Chimimanda.
1:10.9	Okay, I'm going to explain what's going on here right now. So my guest, I'm going to explain what's going on here right now.
1:13.2	So my guest, I'm going to just, oh no, this is, I'm going to just explain it real, real time.
1:18.8	Chimimamanda, Adichie is my guest, but she keeps muttering the word chimichanga at me to just kind of screw me up.
1:27.0	But her name is Chimimamanda and everybody knows her because she's a famous novelist.
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