"Don't address me as Mrs but Miss".-Married Chimamanda Adichie warns journalist
Award winning writer Chimanda-Adichie has many
speculating if her marriage with U.S based doctor,
Dr. Ivara Esegee is intact after she told a
Sunnewsonline journalist to address her as "Miss"
not "Mrs".She said
"Before we start, please, I just want to say that my
name is Chimamanda Adichie. That's how I want it;
that's how I'm ad-dressed, and it is not Mrs but
Miss. Ms: that's how I want it. I am saying this,
because I just got a mail from my manager this
morning. It seems that there are people who
attended the church service, and they wrote about
it, addressing me as Mrs. Chimamanda (Esege). I
didn't like that at all. So my name is Chimamanda
Adichie, full stop! My name is Chimamada Adichie.
If you want to put label for me, put Ms. "
But people know that you're married. As an Igbo
girl, you know our culture, the interviewer
countered.....
"What does our culture do? Let me tell you about
our culture. This thing that you are calling our
culture –that when you marry somebody, you'll
start call-ing her Mrs. Somebody –is not our
culture; it is Western culture. If you want to talk
about our culture, you need to go to people in real
Igbo land. But it is true. My grandfather's name is
David. His name is also Nwoye. They call him
Nwoye Omeni.
Omeni was his mother. You know why? It is to help
distinguish him, because there are often many
wives. So, it was his mother that they used to
identify him. They know that all of these people
came from the same compound, but whose child is
this one. You may go and ask people who is Nwoye
Omeni, and they'll tell you it is my grandfather. So,
conversation about culture is a long one. I don't
even want to have it."
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