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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie slams BBC 'ambush' with Trump supporter

Written By Unknown on Monday, November 28, 2016 | 8:12 AM

The novelist has hit out at the way she found herself pitched into an adversarial encounter on Newsnight with American Spectator editor

Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has received an apology from the BBC, after she accused Newsnight producers of “sneakily pitting” her against a Trump supporter in a live TV interview.

Footage of Adichie’s appearance on the TV programme two weeks ago was shared widely online, particularly because of her comments. When R Emmett Tyrrell, Jr, the editor of the American Spectator, claimed president-elect Donald Trump wasn’t racist, Adichie retorted: “I’m sorry, but as a white man, you don’t get to define what racism is. You really don’t.”

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