Chimamanda talked about losing faith in Nigeria after her father was kidnapped in 2015, how she feels he was kidnapped because of her.
She said:
“It was because of me. That incident affected my father – it robbed him of something; there’s a distrust that he didn’t have before.
He comes from a generation with a certain kind of integrity. For a long time he didn’t understand things like bribery – it just perplexed him.
My father had given his everything – he got his PhD in the US and he had job offers there in the 1960s, but he was keen to come back to Nigeria. It was post-independence, everyone was very enthusiastic and my father spent his life teaching.
I felt that Nigeria had failed him – for a man of his age to be thrown into the boot of a car …That incident broke my heart and it’s the first time I started to seriously question Nigeria.”
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