Award-winning writer, Chimamanda Adichie has shared a story of how she was sexually assaulted at the age of 17.
She made this known during an address at the just concluded Stockholm Forum for Gender Equality.
Chimamanda shocked everyone at the forum when she revealed that she went to a “Big man in media” house after she wrote a book of poems who she thought would help her promote the book.
She went on to reveal how within a minute, the said
man slipped his hands down her clothes and then moved on to her bra and
squeezed her boobs.
She said, “I was so shocked that I did nothing for
seconds but then, I pushed his hand away, gently, nicely, because I
didn’t want to offend him. Later that day, I broke out in a rash on my
face, neck, and chest, as though my body was recoiling, as though my
body was saying what my lips had not said.”
Her outspokenness on feminism and women related
issues especially in terms of sexual harassment's and violations now
comes in a new light as she shares her own story.
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