U.S. not Nigerian govt helped my father when he was kidnapped – Chimamanda Adichie

Daughter of Nigeria’s first professor of statistics, (James Nwoye Adichie) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has said that when her father was kidnapped in 2015 it was the American embassy in Lagos and not the Nigerian government who helped her father and her family,

She made this in an interview with theafricareport.com where she narrated that she is now thinking of accepting and become an American citizen.

Speaking on why she had not taken up citizenship of the United State for long she said the experience of being a Nigerian is experiencing the humiliations of travelling on a Nigerian passport. Chimamanda AdichieSpeaking on why she had not taken up citizenship of the United State for long she said the experience of being a Nigerian is experiencing the humiliations of travelling on a Nigerian passport.

She also said that America is a mix of things and not a perfect society as some may think.

She said that there’s a lot of poverty, a lot of racism, and that she discovered a new identity as a black person in America..

Speaking on what the American embassy in Lagos did for her family, she said they even sent a therapist to my father after he was released by his abductors.

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‘For a long time I didn’t want to become a US citizen because I believed that part of the experience of being Nigerian is experiencing the humiliations of travelling on a Nigerian passport.

‘But I changed my mind about US citizenship after my father was kidnapped in 2015 and it was the American embassy in Lagos and not the Nigerian government who helped my family, and even sent a therapist to my father after he was released. I now plan to become an American citizen at some point, but I guess I’m still delaying it.’