![]() ![]() When she looked up the word and realized what it meant, then she understood “what he wanted to say,” the implication that feminists were angry unreasonable beings.įreeman chooses stories from Adiche’s original text that highlight and describe what feminism really is so that her version of Okolama, and her readers, can understand why feminism is so important. Adichie admits that she didn’t know what the word feminist meant when Okolama used that word in anger. Her best friend joins her, a Nigerian boy named Okolama, who was the first person to ever call Adichie a feminist during an argument when they were teenagers. In Freeman’s picture book interpretation, Adichie is depicted with her natural hair up in a bun as a young girl with a bright green tent dress with her full name in darker green letters. ![]() “When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.” Adichie’s original TED Talk “We Should All Be Feminists”, TED圎uston, December 2012 ![]()
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