Nigerians Think They Are Better Than Everyone Else | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie says it is a shame Nigeria has never had a female governor. She wants women to be given the same chances as men. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was speaking at a special fundraiser in support of female candidates in the upcoming Nigerian general elections organised by Women In Successful Careers, WISCAR.
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0:00 It is sad that Nigeria has never had a woman governor
0:18 Nigerians think they are better than everyone else
0:38 Women have less egos and reach more consensus
02:22 Women don't have to be perfect
03:47 Women role models are very important
05:04 Women need men
07:02 You are a feminist but women are the stars
08:24 I have never met anybody as Nigerian as Chimamanda
08:58 I believe Nigeria
09:57 What Nigeria has lost by excluding women
10:49 One of the biggest problem for women candidates is money
11:58 The story of Barack Obama's first campaign
12:38 I lead by example
#chimamandangoziadichie #nigeria #africannarratives

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@africawebtv1 Год назад

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@alhajablack5545 6 месяцев назад

She said Nigerians think they are better than everyone one else, she never said they are. A lot of people here don't comprehend.

@ThokozaniM 4 месяца назад

Always read your comment before you press that send button .

@ThokozaniM 6 месяцев назад

'We nigerians have this casual arrogance about us we think that we better than everyone else for NO reason'. You nailed it my sister ❤🇿🇦

@yetolaoluwasina5282 6 месяцев назад

Speak for yourself dear. You mean the Igbo Clan.

@Ephraimtech531 6 месяцев назад

Only the igbos does this in Nigeria,and they give Nigerian these bad reputation

@MarylovethIfeanyiLovesFilming 6 месяцев назад

@@yetolaoluwasina5282I am afraid, you will cry for a very long time!

@MarylovethIfeanyiLovesFilming 6 месяцев назад

@@Ephraimtech531what are you gonna do about it???

@tunde6573 6 месяцев назад

Don't let's put ethnicity into this; come on!

@aaronekundayo-vv4iq Год назад

I love how she recognizes the need of men. Very lovely speech. We also need more support for women in politics.

@uchennanwosu4625 Год назад

Powerful advocacy! Women need men. Men need women. Strategic thinking by a highly analytical person.

@skatulle Год назад

I am so humbled by her. shes right. i have delt with Nigerian Women before and they do have this arrogance of thinking that they are better off than others. i thought I was the only one who saw this but I'm glad she has mentioned it. when you are informed you will always know how to address a situation

@chrisoghenetegamaloney5799 Год назад

You dealt with a Nigerian woman n that was your highest peak in life, how glorious can that be

@tegasidney6700 Год назад

@@chrisoghenetegamaloney5799 Oga keep quiet. In Africa we are currently on e of the worse performing economies now for a supposed giant of africa. Our currency hit an all time low recently and also please visit, botswana, namibia, Gabon and see a difference in governance.

@skatulle 10 месяцев назад

@@chrisoghenetegamaloney5799 I am trying to disect your comment and connect it to the context of this video and i just cannot bring my mind to understand what you are talking about. who mentioned anything about my highest peak in life? im still alive so it means i am yet to get there. Are you mad at the idea that the comment made in this video is true and that one of your own is actually brave enough to speak out or are you just mad at your self or mad about life?? You need to swallow a chill pill bud. I am not your problem neither am i your tragedy. Im agreeing with the sentiments made on the video. whats illegal about that??

@dadakeshinro6749 8 месяцев назад

You might be suffering from a complex. Why don't you debate them with confidence ? That is what life is about really

@DavidOdusanya134. 6 месяцев назад

@@tegasidney6700that's was a deliberate devaluation to increase export. Lagos state has a larger economy than most of those nations u spoke about 😂. Our currency is gonna appreciate back refineries are now working

@ceciliaseembernaze3970 9 месяцев назад

Women's only schools are really the definition of meanness

@richardsheffield2823 Год назад

Our Sistah plays the voice of Afrikans while keeping an obsequious closeness to European. We must watch and listen.

@ltfkdk861 Год назад

Beauty and brains, kudos chimamanda!!!!

@booblam6919 11 месяцев назад

I will tell you what is very very important....do all that is good in LIFE. greetings from Jamaica 🇯🇲

@omotolanidebby-vy1ts Год назад

This is impactful and explicit Thank you so much .

@2222333able Год назад

So eloquent and balanced a woman you are Chi❤️

@adetolaakinwande9489 Год назад

Thank You so much my lady ❤️ ... you have spoken well

@akh3nat3n Год назад

I approve her message!

@user-yt4tq9sp3o 6 месяцев назад

GREAT TO SEE YOU AGAIN, OUR STAR!💫🌟⭐

@fabinasetati8736 Год назад

Well said. Sister, we are all chairmen...

@adetolaakinwande9489 Год назад

Thank you lovely sis ❤❤

@ThatsEunice Год назад

It’s very true what she’s saying. As a Nigerian who recently moved back...Nigerians are very delusional. That is why it’s hard for us to progress quicker. Nigerians hate change...even of what they are doing is not working.

@NadaNonsense Год назад

Nigeria is diverse, and not all Nigerians resist change. Progress depends on multiple factors, and is not only dependent on whether or not Nigerians are delusional. You should try and avoid oversimplifying things as it is very wrong (even for someone who "recently moved back.")

@eliezarwealth5568 6 месяцев назад

Madam rest you're not a Nigerian 😅

@thisismystone9658 6 месяцев назад

I do think that Nigerians are very powerful, intelligent above the ordinary people. I respect and admire the banner they are holding for Africa. Nonetheless, I don't feel that they are any better than me. I just love to study them and look at them in awe..

@Angela-hm3xt 6 месяцев назад

Nigerian parents start telling their newborn that they are the children of superior kings. No matter how poor they may be, they shower the babies with words, such as "you're a child of sand of money ". It sounds ridiculous but it's true. I witness it. My parents did it.

@thisismystone9658 6 месяцев назад

@@Angela-hm3xt I will do this for my child too

@Mike_tradehub 6 месяцев назад

@@thisismystone9658 lol sure that’s one of the secrets for our Nigerian spirit even tho like you heard her we always think we are better for no reason….so you have to feed yourselves and your children with strong positive words🤌🏽

@tunde6573 6 месяцев назад

I'm Nigerian and I don't think I'm better than other Africans just because I'm Nigerian. I'm proud of what Nigeria is doing and I'm also proud of the accomplishments of other Africans. I understand what my dear Chimamanda is saying though. We Nigerians actually have a good mindset of whom we are and positive self esteem. We don't look down on others and think we've got two heads God has given us all the same brain.

@babacargueye5343 5 месяцев назад

Well they hold the banner of a failed country where everyone is trying to jump the ship of a sinking naira to flee to any country willing to give them visa😂

@jerrymoffatt1530 Год назад

Great narrative!

@dadakeshinro6749 9 месяцев назад

For YOU!😮

@abby0099 7 месяцев назад

Beautiful hair love it ❤😊

@natanyaaberra8735 Год назад

African women in America need to hear this!!

@clarak.mallah4137 Год назад

She is saying the truth.

@deepafroculture Год назад

A great woman you are, Chimamanda

@dadakeshinro6749 8 месяцев назад

For your level of intellect

@Ike-un6mc 6 месяцев назад

Governors and other politicians should be elected on the basis on the readiness, capacity and ability to serve the people of the state etc not whether they are male or female.

@user-hp2lq9fm5b 9 месяцев назад

You're a super star.

@tunde6573 6 месяцев назад

I love you always my gorgeous and beautiful sister; a pack and bundle of intellect ❤

@nwachichigbundu5602 Год назад

Nice.

@ZomziWeAfrika Год назад

That is so true they think they are better 😂

@chrisoghenetegamaloney5799 Год назад

E pain you

@juliusabbey4824 6 месяцев назад

If Nigerian think they're better that is not your problem if you as person believe you are better that be it... Most of Africa countries white people really mess our senses before they left us.... I'm happy for Nigeria they see themselves as prince and princess of Africa... If you as others Africa countries don't see yourself that way is your problem not Nigeria... You must have the confident as black man don't feel inferior to any human on this earth.... I think majority of Africa countries lack this the reasons you see Nigerian as your problem.... I have tried to take a look at individual Africa countries I found that must lack the confident black man should posees.. So anytime they see Nigerian having too much confident they say they are loud.... Man you got to he loud in this white supremacy world we are leaving in.... Don't be slave be who you are.

@dianaaddison1 Год назад

Not even better thy are full of themselves,

@majamaja8136 Год назад

That's what I keep telling my nigerian brothers, it's a shame.

@chrisoghenetegamaloney5799 Год назад

What's shame with your Nigerian brothers

@Onyekaozuluginika Год назад

My woman

@afroriginalvoice9419 Год назад

You become what you think.

@udejacqueline6226 8 месяцев назад

We really need to reciprocate it at home. Women should be given opportunity to become presidents, governors etc. Dora Akunyili deed wonders at NAfDac.

@xtinedike4334 Год назад

Bold

@cbel888 9 месяцев назад

Husband and wife. The only working society, no matter where on earth. Become better HUSBAND AND WIFE. AND PRAISE THE LORD.❤😊

@BuhlendabaH 9 месяцев назад

Nigerian because you make noise about your achievement does not mean you're the best in africa, chill and look at your home first.

@bizzarre9737 9 месяцев назад

If you’re the best and no one knows about you, what good is that. You need to make noise so you’re known and Nigerians know how to do just that

@deblessedone1735 9 месяцев назад

Making positive noise is necessary most times. For instance America is not the best Country in the world to reside and thrive but no other country makes more noise than America today. There are more homelessness in America today than most industrial world as l write. If you are not aware America will have you believe that America streets are paved with gold. That's what it's. You have to propagate and promate yourself when necessary. It's nothing wrong with that.

@dadakeshinro6749 9 месяцев назад

The loud groups among them are Igbos 😮😢

@deblessedone1735 9 месяцев назад

@@dadakeshinro6749 generally Nigerians are very boisterous and loud. I do not have any qualms when people are boisterous or loud as in this case. Make noise when necessary. Be very aware when to make noise and when to be quiet. To your reference that the Igbos are loud that is your opinion and you are entitled to your opinion. Does that hold true l doubt it. Nigerians are pretty boisterous with no exceptions to tribes or region. Nigeria is a noisy society from taxi drivers to most private vehicle operator honking unnecessary every minute or seconds in some cases.

@idongisaac8258 8 месяцев назад

You can go ahead and chill all you want. And, since all of you are bent on being "chill," can you just chill while we Nigerians make all the noise? We can't all be chill at the same time; that would make Africa very boring and pliable!

@keepitreal335 6 месяцев назад

Good job chimamada we need more women leaders in Africa

@theresadavidsson7959 10 месяцев назад

❤

@blueplanetwarrior1529 Год назад

Irrespective of any country / nationality, the one which emerges on top qualifies for certain basic traits like intimidation, arrogance, getting over others, even rascism, whether we like it or not, this is the blunt equation of life on earth, including humans. Its an ingrained attribute of life. The oppressed will keep lamenting, revolting etc

@user-bj5cv4ms3u 10 месяцев назад

Very true only broke lazy people have time to judge those who succeed on their grind.

@danielmikandu1017 9 месяцев назад

Muntu sana uyu.

@vinizhimomii 2 месяца назад

I can hear her talking for hours

@TruthIntel Год назад

If Putin have as much ago as Western Leaders we all may not be here today.

@dadakeshinro6749 9 месяцев назад

You're Right ✅️

@user-tk8qr1pn2p 5 месяцев назад

The last thing I said to you was, never release somebody without knowing how they can assist you in your hour of need.

@lionclaw1234 Год назад

Like to collobo

@barbaraakinbowale4456 6 месяцев назад

Is your heading telling us what you're thinking? Your thoughts are not always our thoughts.

@saniari4724 Год назад

I really believe Nigerians are better than many many countries. Look at the achievements of Nigerians in the United States of America, Canada and the UK. Given a conducive atmosphere, Nigerians can out perform anyone and anywhere

@Bio54633 Год назад

If we were really better our country would be thriving.

@igeeniolaoluwa1570 Год назад

I understand your point but the Nigerians succeeding abroad are not adding to our development but the foreign countries development. All I can infer from what you said is that we have potential. And yes I really do believe we think we are better than most countries. At this point we shouldn't be thinking that way we need to focus on our development not who we're better than because whether you want to admit it or not our influence in even Africa as greatly declined

@adrianochieno6131 Год назад

Self acclaimed Ego Sani Ari. A child who has never left home to any other place or country believes that his mother is the best cook. I think you are that child who has never left Nigeria to any other place🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

@py20 Год назад

What use is one's achievement abroad when his own country is a complete mess?

@saniari4724 Год назад

@@adrianochieno6131 I went to the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. I have worked in Columbus public schools for 5 years. I worked with two schools in Maryland for over 5 years. I have traveled around the USA. My adulthood was spent in America, thank you

@soniadavidson5842 Год назад

So do Jamaicans

@missm472 Год назад

Lol Jamaicans are literally Nigerians. Just distant cousins

@madgiemadgie9128 Год назад

Jamaicans are Nigerians! Can’t tell me nuthin’!!! 🇳🇬

@booblam6919 11 месяцев назад

@@missm472all types of people are located in Jamaica 🇯🇲 .

@booblam6919 11 месяцев назад

@@madgiemadgie9128all types of people are located in Jamaica 🇯🇲 .

@booblam6919 11 месяцев назад

Many are very very humble as well.

@user-bj5cv4ms3u 10 месяцев назад

It should not be about men. Women should focus on themselves and highlighting themselves instead of always pushing a competition perspective...women who feel they can should stand up anvstand out. No one is pushing men afterall. As a woman if you feel you can come out and get it... it's not ganded out.

@musical_lolu4811 5 месяцев назад

Clickbait title.

@franklinbrown5625 Год назад

Women have egos too

@dadakeshinro6749 9 месяцев назад

Egos or Goats 🐐 😢😂

@emekaclementokeke2497 Год назад

Wow!! What's this, what is she talking about?

@lifeisthebestteacher 8 месяцев назад

Better than everyone else??? Nigerians??? Can you elaborate this narrative?

@yetolaoluwasina5282 6 месяцев назад

This is no true. I am a Nigeria and I don't have this view. She is Igbo and their narrative is they are better than other tribes in Nigeria.

@greatnation1219 5 месяцев назад

She actually said "thinks"

@flobekoe Год назад

Why is it that, most Nigerian celebrities live in Ghana, they can’t stay in Nigeria?

@madgiemadgie9128 Год назад

Like who? Most? Name them

@bolu101 Год назад

are you bored?

@chrisoghenetegamaloney5799 Год назад

Ghana is a village, do u have food?

@sean-et4wr 10 месяцев назад

Smelly illiterates..😂😂. A small, poor country desperate for attention. No accomplishments or achievements…always begging and crying for attention.

@wilsp2457 9 месяцев назад

@@sean-et4wr Oh come on. I don't have any idea about most Nigerian celebrities living in Ghana. Yet, calling over 30million human beings THAT is uncalled for. Apart from the music / entertainment industry or even adding that, what significant thing/development has the acclaimed "giant of Africa" have over Ghana? In fact we West African countries should be ashamed of our low level development rate!

@lenu617 5 месяцев назад

"Who is a man, by all accounts..." Lol

@wesainie5705 Год назад

Wait a minute! Is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie blaming Putin for the war in Ukraine? Is she saying Putin is responsible for the lack of peace in the world? Stunning from such educated person.

@pr_dantey Год назад

She's always been pro-american. What do you expect?

@wesainesheriff8940 Год назад

@@pr_dantey I didn't know that. Africa is in trouble, serious trouble.

@jmwdoc7754 Год назад

@@wesainesheriff8940 serious trouble because some elite doesn't support genocide? How smart do you imagine you are?

@wesainesheriff8940 Год назад

@jmw doc You can not be serious. It's obvious you know absolutely nothing about the genesis of this conflict. Yet you blindly jumped in with a juvenile viewpoint. Then again, I don't totally blame you for your woeful lack of how we got to this carnage.

@jmwdoc7754 Год назад

@@wesainesheriff8940 lol, you don't know me! Stop being full of yourself, and no, am not doing this with you. I'd chat with someone interesting

@novletmills9244 Год назад

So I guessing they no longer go to the toilet? No need for them to defecate? Hello, all human beings are equal. People circumstances are different.

@emmanuelagah8233 6 дней назад

Governorship is not by appointment. Let them run for election. Her statement about Putin is completely wrong. This is why no one can trust women in Nigeria with such responsibilities

@Beex848 9 месяцев назад

I think its dangerous to push that Nigerians are better because in the same breath, Nigerians are vocal about the challenges posed by tribalism in the country itself. No group of africans is better than another. The weird thing is an illiterate South african will think South african are better because of someone so far removed from them like Nelson Mandela. Before you boast about achievement of your close men, ask yourself if you yourself are what you praise your people to be if it's so true.

@lucasasigayi91 6 месяцев назад

Thats your opinion as SAcn we dont care we just living our best life, please stay away from us and focus on your Nigeria.

@Beex848 6 месяцев назад

@@lucasasigayi91 focus on my Nigeria? What's that?

@supreme7761 5 месяцев назад

Fuseg

@Beex848 5 месяцев назад

@supreme7761 why fuseki?

@yetolaoluwasina5282 6 месяцев назад

Please I want correct this narrative. I am Nigerian and I have never thought been better than anyone. I am flexible, ready to learn and share the view of others. However, we have various tribes in Nigeria and some portray themselves better than others. Please know the person before you judge. We might come from the same country but we don't think alike. Thanks.

@tdad8683 6 месяцев назад

Ewu... DID YOU WATCH THE VIDEO AT ALL?????

@charliesmitho4001 5 месяцев назад

Americans always say they are the best in the world. May be you are the worst in the world . Hope you are ok now.

@carolokoyo7466 Год назад

Oiboman

@kenechionuora299 5 месяцев назад

This woman sometimes can talk sense, sometimes she talks like goat. Honestly. Please who is Virginia Etiaba .

@Kachi-Tech 3 месяца назад

Shut up, go and check how she became a governor?

@kenechionuora299 3 месяца назад

@@Kachi-Tech you should be the one shutting up cause you have answered yourself.

@wilsonreuben5125 Год назад

What nonsense are you people even saying. She's totally wrong. Self-confidence is not arrogance. If you people can't differentiate that ...then that's your problem. She is wrong for saying that.

@dadakeshinro6749 5 месяцев назад

This lady has lost her minds; structurally very intelligent people don't need to know what we have already known. Some writers are just waste of time for public discussions 😮

@MonDieuMaCauseMonEpee 5 месяцев назад

Her argument is nonsense.

@africawebtv1 5 месяцев назад

Can you please indicate why you disagree with her point of view? It will help others to understand the issues better.

@christianwossogo5526 4 месяца назад

What she says IS just common sense. Nothing New or innovative except that it is said by a remarkable speecher. As we say in France " Elle enfonce des portes ouvertes" = She crashed opened doors

@yawomarioanoumah28 3 месяца назад

She's one of the finest writers that I ever saw. And maybe for a fair world, your view point matters so think more when you want to say smthg👌🏾

@christianwossogo5526 3 месяца назад

@@yawomarioanoumah28 I never said she was not a remarkable writer...I just said that her speech was common sense

@nnmzulu.401 10 месяцев назад

Men are Sovereign gods. We approach women so that we may expand our empires and sovereignty. Our sovereignty happened to be the absolute love for our Fathers. This is what makes nations. The growth of sons of the same father.

@ZaheedsMall 9 месяцев назад

This girl is talking too much these days . lat time she is asking to break kola nut in igbo land ... girl take it easy ooooo ..You are african not America...

@ezikechisom9321 9 месяцев назад

Correct that mentality. "Being African" is not "being restricted".

@dadakeshinro6749 9 месяцев назад

With the voice, I am not too sure whether it is transgender due to cragy voice base. 😮😮😢

@FabNaijaMom 8 месяцев назад

@@dadakeshinro6749 it’s her voice. She has a beautiful voice I love it

@dadakeshinro6749 8 месяцев назад

@@FabNaijaMom Terrible, I am out !

@MarylovethIfeanyiLovesFilming 6 месяцев назад

@@dadakeshinro6749 Better go out very well

@Flickit100 6 месяцев назад

Stop talking about ego or entitlement in men, you are all that.

@tdad8683 6 месяцев назад

😂😂😂😂😂😂... someone is clearly hurt.

@anyetitan8410 Год назад

Politics is not her field. She can shut up and write novels.

@igeeniolaoluwa1570 Год назад

Congratulations you just proved her point. This is a very ignorant statement you made I hope you fix your mentality

@anyetitan8410 Год назад

@Ige Eniolaoluwa firstly, if you are nigerian, my understanding is any discourse we have will be biased. I will like you to focus on her statement that the war in Ukraine is all because of one man's ego which is absolutely false hence the reason for my statement. Please, do some research about the prelude to the Ukraine war and get back to me. Hint: tensions started since 2014.

@igeeniolaoluwa1570 Год назад

@@anyetitan8410 I really don't care about what happened in 2014. There is no justification for that war Ukraine is suffering, Russia is suffering and the whole world is suffering. Gas prices and inflation has skyrocketed. It's all because of one man's ego. They didn't want NATO to close in on their borders but it backfired and now Finland has joined NATO. Please I hope the war stops so that no one dies again.

@anyetitan8410 Год назад

@Ige Eniolaoluwa coming back to the point, do you think the war is as a result of one man's ego or is the consequence of a complicated geopolitical tension? My statement about chimamanda lays its basis on her claim that the war is because of putins' ego, which is not true. Africans should learn to hold people accountable for their wrongs irrespective of their achievements. She is a good writer she is smart, but it doesn't necessarily mean she has a mastery of geopolitics. What she tried to do was to base her claim that women are better leaders than men on a false premise the war is all because of one man's ego.

@igeeniolaoluwa1570 Год назад

@@anyetitan8410 if you listen carefully you will discover thar she said that we need men in our society because they are still the ones in charge. She didn't say men where bad infact she said that women are human and they won't necessarily be saints. Scientifically speaking men have more ego displays than women. So she didn't say women are any better than men she said there is a possibility that women might be better in positions of authority and should be more involved in politics.

@kayodebanjo 9 месяцев назад

No doubt she is very beautiful, but she has this false sense of importance born out of her mediocre books which they like in America, she is no China Achebe or Wole Soyinka

@Ikukundu 8 месяцев назад

You can hate all you want loser🙄She is in her own lane which she set for herself same way Chinua Achebe placed himself in his own lane. Rubbish talk showing you’re envious of her. Don’t even try to come for me. Mchewww