The Reality of Fiction with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

What Now? with Trevor Noah

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News, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie joins Trevor and Christiana to discuss her new novel and how she approaches the alchemy of writing fiction. The three also discuss the challenge of exchanging opposing ideas in today’s world, when joke telling may be crossing the line, and why Chimamanda declines to be on social media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Like I always said, and I mean, this is something that I learned in South Africa, because we have such a large Nigerian population, I always go like, Nigerians were the first Africans who taught me to believe in myself.
0:11.0	Do you know what I mean?
0:11.6	Like every other African that I met always had like a certain level of like, how are you doing?
0:16.2	It was like, ah, I'm okay.
0:17.7	You know, I'm okay. You know, I'm fine. Like, you know, we even say in South Africa, we'd be like, ah, yangang.
0:21.5	Which means like I'm almost like I'm begging.
0:23.6	I'm begging my way through.
0:25.4	I, you know, I'm getting by.
0:26.8	I try.
0:27.8	You know, and Nigerians, I remember like, literally with the first ones,
0:30.9	we were like, you're not trying.
0:31.7	You're doing.
0:33.3	You are doing it. What do you mean you are trying? Are you not winning? And I was like, I mean, yeah.
0:37.9	I mean, they're like, no, you're winning.
0:39.1	Don't see you are trying when you are doing it.
0:45.6	This is What Now with Trevor Noah.
0:52.9	Why?
0:57.6	Hey.
0:59.3	Hello.
1:00.0	Hello you.
1:02.2	What's your name?
1:03.1	Christina.
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