Last year, renowned Nigerian author Chimamanda Adichie’s father was kidnapped.
On Saturday May, 2015 Professor James Nwoye Adichie was kidnapped on his way to Nsukka to Aba in Anambra. He was freed three days later.
In a recent interview with BBC News Hours, Chimamanda Adichie, 37, spoke about her father’s kidnap.
Chimamanda Adichie and her parents
“We are still
reeling from it- We still have nightmares. I felt deeply hurt .I also
felt very angry…I never imagined it would happen to us. And to an 80
year old father like my father who spent his whole life teaching for
Nigeria- I felt Nigeria had failed us…The state government did not do as
much as we had hoped. It’s just the larger problem of inefficiency… One
person has now been caught and is in custody but in general we still
don’t know” she said.
“My father was very keen to protect me. He kept saying to them – I don’t have her number on my phone, I don’t remember it” she further said.
In December, the Swedish government announced that it will distribute 'We Should All Be Feminists' by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to every 16-year-old in the country.
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