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 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.”
We understand her better now as she shares her own story.
Watch the video below, starting from the 3:44:08 mark.
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