We should all be feminists | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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🗓️ 8 March 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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We teach girls that they can have ambition, but not too much ... to be successful, but not too successful, or they'll threaten men, says author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. In this classic talk that started a worldwide conversation about feminism, Adichie asks that we begin to dream about and plan for a different, fairer world -- of happier men and women who are truer to themselves.

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0:00.0	You're listening to a special archive presentation of TED Talks Daily.
0:05.2	This talk features novelist Chimamanda Ingozi Adichie, recorded live at TEDx Houston 2012.
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0:48.4	So I would like to start by telling you about one of my greatest friends, Okoloma Madweiwese. Okoma lived on my street and looked
0:58.1	after me like a big brother. If I liked a boy, I would ask Okoloma's opinion. Okoloma died in the
1:05.4	notorious Susuliso plane crash in Nigeria in December of 2005, almost exactly seven years ago.
1:13.6	Okoma was the person I could argue with, laugh with, and truly talked to.
1:19.6	He was also the first person to call me a feminist.
1:23.6	I was about 14, we were in his house, arguing, both of us bristling with half-baked knowledge from books that we had read.
1:31.3	I don't remember what this particular argument was about.
1:35.3	But I remember that as I argued and argued, Okoloma looked at me and said,
1:39.3	You know you're a feminist.
1:41.3	It was not a compliment.
1:43.3	I could tell from his tone, the same tone that you would use to say something You know you're a feminist. It was not a compliment.
1:45.1	I could tell from his tone, the same tone
1:46.9	that you would use to say something like,
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