jimchuchu:

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on the “stories that Europe tells itself about its colonial history”. Powerful, and funny stuff.

minimalistapproach:

Rethink Africa. Rethink the world. Knowledge is power.Chimamanda Adichie on the dangers of the single story. Learn and see.

emptyblueprints:

Above: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie at the Commonwealth Lecture 2012. “Connecting Cultures”

“I recently spoke at a university where a student told me it was such a shame that Nigerian men were physical abusers like the father character in my novel.

I told him that I had recently read a novel called American Psycho, and that it was a shame that young Americans were serial murderers.”

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigerian novelist, editor, and lecturer and winner of the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction for Half of a Yellow Sun

aphoticoccurrences:

Jaja of Opobo

beautifullyonyx:

Igbo instruments

nakaonwood:

Learning how to do this traditional Igbo war dance. It’s like the bankhead bounce on acid

itweetnaija:

#Smile tomorrow is Friday!!

theafricanpoet:

Isi kotara ebu ka ebu na-agba.
It is the head that disturbs the wasp that the wasp stings.

 igrew up in Umuozu with this masquerade as the epitome of cultural dance Egbukere festival mask by Aguru of Ahoada

jessicachinyere:

1. i love corn

2. i put ranch on almost everything

3. i went through a screamo faze…but i only listened to the music, its not like i was a scene kid or anything lol

4. I want to be a bollywood star! lol thats not really random to the people that know me.

5. I wants lots of kids! like 10….or as…