'Tell your truth,' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie urges Colombia festivalgoers

Novelist addresses two packed events at the Latin American Hay festival, where she says black women writers must resist pressure ‘not to be black’

Feminists need to get their sons to make their own beds and not to clap when they do, the writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie told a packed audience at the Hay Cartagena festival on Saturday.

“There’s almost an epidemic of guilt among women,” she said. “They feel guilty for wanting more and guilty for not doing domestic work when all over the world they do most of it. One of the ways we have to think about it is how we raise boys, because they should be taught to do their share.”

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