Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
First edition
AuthorChimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Audio read byJanuary LaVoy
LanguageEnglish
GenreEpistolary, feminism
Published2017
PublisherKnopf Publishers
Publication placeNigeria
Media typePrint, e-book, audiobook
Pages80 pages (hardback)
ISBN152473313X US hardback
OCLC975594894

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]

  1. ^ a b c Hampton, Nia (March 7, 2017). "The Wise Counsel of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Feminist Manifesto". The Village Voice.
  2. ^ Adichie, Chimamanda (October 12, 2016). "'DEAR IJEAWELE, OR A FEMINIST MANIFESTO IN FIFTEEN SUGGESTIONS'". Facebook.
  3. ^ Bascaramurty, Dakshana (March 6, 2017). "Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Living and Teaching Feminism". The Globe and Mail.
  4. ^ "About Chimamanda Adichie". Archived from the original on 2018-08-20. Retrieved 2018-03-31.
  5. ^ a b c Greenberg, Zoe (March 15, 2017). "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Blueprint for Feminism". The New York Times. Retrieved April 4, 2018.
  6. ^ a b "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Discusses Her New Feminist Manifesto, Dear Ijeawele". YouTube. March 9, 2017.
  7. ^ Krug, Nora (March 8, 2018). "Women, Stop Worrying About Being Liked — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Advice for Living Boldly". The Washington Post.
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference :6 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  9. ^ Katara, Nikhil (September 3, 2017). "Dear Ijeawele or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions: Review". The Free Press Journal.
  10. ^ "Best Books of 2017". NPR.org. Retrieved April 11, 2018.