![]() ![]() ![]() Some of the suggestions feel like mountains of difficulty made simple: but then that’s what manifestos are for. They should never tell their daughter not to do something “because she’s a girl” they shouldn’t encourage her to aim at getting married, as if it were an achievement in itself. ![]() She should share childcare equally, and not thank her husband for changing their daughter’s nappy – nor complain about the way he does it, either. Ijeawele must be a full person and not let motherhood alone define her she should go back to work if she wants to, and love “the confidence and self-fulfilment that come with doing and earning”. Her friend Ijeawele wrote to ask how she should bring her baby daughter up a feminist, and in response, after the right hesitations – “it felt like too huge a task” and “she will still turn out to be different from what you hoped, because sometimes life just does its thing” – Adichie made a list of 15 suggestions. ![]() I t would be difficult not to like this little book, which shines with all Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s characteristic warmth and sanity and forthrightness. ![]()
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