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What Now? With Trevor NoahThe Reality of Fiction with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | What Now? with Trevor Noah Podcast
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EPISODE INFO
- Released
- March 20, 2025
- Duration
- 1h 39m
- Channel
- What Now? With Trevor Noah
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION
This week we’re joined by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to discuss her brilliant new novel and how she approaches the alchemy of writing fiction. We also discuss the challenge of exchanging opposing ideas in today’s world, when joke telling may be crossing the line, and why Chimamanda declines to be on social media. 00:00 Intro 00:58 Nigerian influence on self-confidence 08:53 Discussion of Dream Count Novel 15:00 Exploring fame's impact on art and authenticity 35:39 Critique of American Academia 45:00 Discussion about love and relationships in literature 01:00:00 Critique of American academia and institutional trust 01:22:09 Analysis of American perspective on global issues 01:36:37 Fiction as the last frontier of truth If you haven't already.... Subscribe to What Now? here on YouTube! https://bit.ly/SubscribeToWhatNowPodcast Or follow along on your other favourite podcast platforms... Spotify - https://bit.ly/WhatNowOnSpotify / Apple Podcasts - https://bit.ly/WhatNowOnApplePodcasts More episodes... Christiana Gave Birth (Again)! https://youtu.be/ER-EZnyjSJM Human-Kind or Human Evil with Rutger Bregman https://youtu.be/vhg2RLXUovs Meet Khaya Dlanga – One of My Favorite People https://youtu.be/qEJV3t1m_Y4 The Second Coming of Halle Berry https://youtu.be/hW7Mld_WksU RIP… D.E.I. with Ruha Benjamin https://youtu.be/1VRCfuKEGdo No One Told Trevor He Was Hosting the Grammys https://youtu.be/bNEJVTNU8N8 Wringing in the New Year https://youtu.be/Ge_0YMwfTes Is Marques Brownlee the Most Powerful Man in Tech? https://youtu.be/pNDidttHP9M?si=5GDvs3sbehGH5ZZm Why Are All Bosses Idiots? with Simon Sinek https://youtu.be/BooPVxoRmEY?si=IV5bDRKpJj2Z1WHV How To Be The Most Healed Guy with Neal Brennan https://youtu.be/InNbGfVVtJk?si=rKM8EcfC-bGcWEsk If You Ruled the World: Listener Grab Bag https://youtu.be/lRBA74Yd6eo Love on a Timeline with Esther Perel https://youtu.be/wXoi2mcS79c Tight Values, Loose Ideas with Malcolm Gladwell https://youtu.be/0nzREiczBaA?si=FpCq7CQIg8wavN89 What’s In An Accent with Lupita Nyong’o https://youtu.be/OncAEu9sfD8?si=CEM-ZAFKABE9agLx For Kids or Anyone Who’s Ever Been a Kid https://youtu.be/iv3CMDfKM5w?si=_e0aLFDiHBxPutCB Have We Missed The Message? with Ta-Nehisi Coates https://youtu.be/IPbD9PZ5FP4?si=6Jo16ww9qDqjPFIF Kevin Hart Gets the Bubble Guts! https://youtu.be/LxWiLYHEdYI?si=DQfQxsE_qbQU18gc Doctor Roger Federer Will See You Now https://youtu.be/0foth8r3Zbg?si=jLLMfq9DE90rLAZn Welcome To The Julia Louis-Dreyfus Brain Museum https://youtu.be/gIM1aQ9KS1o?si=z6pYIWwtEOfjqspB Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson Kicks Off The Podcast! https://youtu.be/gPmBuZbnn0g?si=R2jJLxG5cb-BwF03 Jessica Alba Is Standing in Her Power! https://youtu.be/zY9KZyJ1EiI?si=qGolN-Ga4PI3C-5a Making Bureaucracies Sexier with Yuval Noah Harari https://youtu.be/jO8ZLWYg71M?si=Ihm6QzZEnueJJWr1 Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias and the Art of Mentoring https://youtu.be/_ZeEiE42kNk?si=UNc9HE9NnyQbSVs6 Tripping Past Your Ego with Michael Pollan https://youtu.be/RMXu7Fn_bZc?si=fujRFMjoW0gwtMLu Why AI Won’t Destroy Us with Microsoft’s Brad Smith https://youtu.be/N5qEv-0fyQ4?si=YqEp8HUM5TCvVoZi Sam Altman Speaks Out About What Happened at OpenAI https://youtu.be/dVTxt5K8YZo?si=tNjKcPxtZuj6crVd There’s No I In Trevor Noah https://youtu.be/NZYnFYmn1Q0?si=5mYwzWfs83XoXhLO The Ozempic Obsession with Jia Tolentino https://youtu.be/ZR9QASRetRc?si=FmhMdLFmYKAOtxP8 #Chimamanda #TrevorNoah #WhatNowPodcast
SPEAKERS
Trevor Noah
hostComedian and television host, best known for hosting The Daily Show and the What Now? with Trevor Noah podcast.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
guestNigerian novelist and essayist known for works such as Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists.
EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode of What Now? With Trevor Noah, featuring Trevor Noah and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Reality of Fiction with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | What Now? with Trevor Noah Podcast explores Chimamanda Adichie on fiction, fame, academia, polarization, and America's blind spots Adichie says she writes fiction with radical honesty and without thinking about fame or audience, and she regards it as her vocation and an ancestral gift.
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