Adichie’s parents were well-known intellectuals – her father was a professor of statistics and her mother was the University of Nigeria’s first female registar. Both books are set in post-independence Nigeria, and drew on her family’s experiences in the aftermath of the 1967-70 Nigerian Civil War. Purple Hibiscus was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction Half of a Yellow Sun won it three years later. What matters is not goodness but the appearance of goodness.”Īdichie came to fame with her novels Purple Hibiscus (2003) and Half of a Yellow Sun. “We have a generation of young people on social media so terrified of having the wrong opinions that they have robbed themselves of the opportunity to think and to learn and to grow,” she argues. In her three-part, 7,000-word essay, Adichie stands shoulder-to-shoulder with them. In 2020, Rowling wrote in her blog about abuse she had received for her stance on trans issues Fry, meanwhile, has argued in defence of free speech in a conversation with Jordan Peterson, published in The Telegraph. She joins a growing list of prominent left-wing figures, such as JK Rowling and Stephen Fry, who have criticised the trend for hounding famous people for failing to live up to “the prevailing ideological orthodoxy” – and the chilling effect this is having on personal freedom and free speech. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the best-selling Nigerian-American writer, who is a favourite of Oprah and the Obamas and author of books including We Should All Be Feminists, has spoken out against cancel culture in an online essay, branding it “obscene”.
The war on woke has an unlikely new champion.
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