Another Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie masterclass! Chimamanda Adichie's speech at 2022 PEN America's Words on Fire: Writing, Freedom and The Future. She strongly defends free speech & the right to disagree with one another. She says the fear of causing offence has become a fetish. Stories and words matter she concludes.

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00:00 PEN will organise a jailbreak for me
01:18 My reaction after the Salman Rushdie attack
02:52 We must recognise the power of words to wound
04:10 We must protect the values of disagreement
06:54 Americans want comfort when disagreeing instead of the truth
07:25 The ability to admit to ignorance is a wonderful thing
09:45 Literature is the love of my life
12:04 I self-censure myself often
14:45 Some people are not of good faith
15:36 Storytelling has the power to humanise people

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