Author | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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Audio read by | January LaVoy |
Language | English |
Genre | Epistolary, feminism |
Published | 2017 |
Publisher | Knopf Publishers |
Publication place | Nigeria |
Media type | Print, e-book, audiobook |
Pages | 80 pages (hardback) |
ISBN | 152473313X US hardback |
OCLC | 975594894 |
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions is an epistolary form[1] manifesto written by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Dear Ijeawele was posted on her official Facebook page on October 12, 2016,[2] was subsequently adapted into a book,[3] and published in print on March 7, 2017.[4]
Before becoming a book, Dear Ijeawele was a personal e-mail written by Adichie in response to her friend, "Ijeawele",[5] who had asked Adichie's advice on how to raise her daughter as a feminist.[6] The result of this e-mail correspondence is the extended,[1] 62-page[7] Dear Ijeawele manifesto, written in the form of a letter.[5] While the manifesto was written to a female friend, the work's audience scope has been recognized to extend beyond only the mothers of daughters.[8]
Dear Ijeawele is composed of fifteen suggestions on how to raise a feminist daughter,[5] with references to Adichie and Ijeawele's shared Nigerian heritage and Igbo culture.[1][9] Adichie was inspired to publicize the letter after becoming increasingly aware of what she recognized as ongoing gender inequality in her native Nigeria.[6] Dear Ijeawele featured on NPR's list of "2017's Great Reads".[10]
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