Chimamanda Adichie Opens Up On Being Sexually Assaulted At 17 By A Lagos Big Shot

While speaking at the Stockholm Forum on Gender Equality which held in Sweden between 15–17 April, award-winning writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie shared her story of being assaulted at 17 by a big man in the media who she had gone to for .

      She had gone to the office of the man whose name she didn’t mention in Lagos with hopes that he would help her with the launch of a poetry book she had written. The man had praised her and commended her dedication at such a young age when most of her mates couldn’t even be bothered to read. And then in what she described as a swift and shocking move, reached into her shirt and fondled her breast.

She also spoke on being a feminist long before she ever knew what it was, the MeToomovement and her hopes that her 2 and a half-year-old daughter would grow up in a world that is so much better than the one she currently leaves in.