Chimamanda Advices Youths To Ignore Social Media And Read Books
Chimamanda Advices Youths To Ignore Social Media And Read Books
US-based Nigerian novelist and author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has urged youths across the globe to dedicate more time to reading.
Adichie made this known at The Harvard Centrer Honors, Massachusetts, US, where she received W.E.B Du Bois Medal on Thursday.
While delivering her speech after receiving the honour, the 45-year-old Purple Hibiscus author said she fled Nigeria to avoid studying Medicine as wanted by her parents saying “I was made to tell stories.”
Speaking about embracing books at the expense of social media, Adichie said, “And so for you young people, I just want to make a very small suggestion, how about you give up social media for you know, two weeks, three weeks, a month, and read, read, read.”
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