We begin here in berlin at the annual Literature Festival which is a platform for presenting contemporary developments in all full names of the written word right as an academic from around the world come to the festival as well as of course the literature loving public the nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi adichie is one of the top African Writers around today and we met up with her at the festival. Their presence is enough to feel the holes like here with the Literature Festival in the early Chimamanda Ngozi adichie is greeted like a pop star as one of the great voices of World Literature is also a feminist icon. And really just a writer you know i want to stay home and write poetry and dream but there are things about the wall that make me so angry that i then want to try and make a difference in her books a deal she deals with racism and sexism at 19 she left nigeria to study in the us
and it was there that she learned for the 1st time what it means to be black she talks about this
gender have not evolved she s also part of pop culture senior beyond say featured her speech in a song. exception to the way that. the social and economic policy of this is in many ways a teacher has. captured today s zeitgeist she s currently on the cover of british vogue but she doesn t see herself as an activist it s more important for gigi to tell stories because it s stories that bind society together especially in difficult times. i think now more than ever it s important for storytellers to continue this is what has kept human beings going throughout our time on earth it s you know we ve gone from sort of sitting round the campfire and now we re writing books but it s fundamentally the same thing i think it s that