Tag: Chimamanda ngozi Adichie

Stuck between Faith and Frustration: A Review of Hail Mary by Funmi Fetto -Akumbu Uche

In her colourful descriptions, there are hints of Fetto’s second career as a fashion journalist. (She is the style editor at British Vogue and the author of Palette, a beauty bible for black women.) Like Erving Goffman who penned The Presentation of Self, Fetto’s radar is attuned to how people employ clothes and cosmetics in crafting their personal narratives and the varying results.

Chimamanda’s male characters: A parade of villains and “thieves of time” – Chinonso Nzeakor

My primary reservation with this binary polarization of gender into victim and villain, this apportionment of blame in Adichie’s literary works is that it almost denies men their humanity. It foists on men this ideological coat of perpetrator of female suffering, and within this paradigm, it becomes strange, almost impossible, to even conceive of men as victims of female cruelty.