![]() Some of the suggestions feel like mountains of difficulty made simple: but then that’s what manifestos are for. They should never tell their daughter not to do something “because she’s a girl” they shouldn’t encourage her to aim at getting married, as if it were an achievement in itself. She should share childcare equally, and not thank her husband for changing their daughter’s nappy – nor complain about the way he does it, either. ![]() Ijeawele must be a full person and not let motherhood alone define her she should go back to work if she wants to, and love “the confidence and self-fulfilment that come with doing and earning”. Her friend Ijeawele wrote to ask how she should bring her baby daughter up a feminist, and in response, after the right hesitations – “it felt like too huge a task” and “she will still turn out to be different from what you hoped, because sometimes life just does its thing” – Adichie made a list of 15 suggestions. I t would be difficult not to like this little book, which shines with all Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s characteristic warmth and sanity and forthrightness. ![]()
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