Wikipedia: Feminist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

This assignment is a lot more time- consuming that I originally thought. I remember I did a similar Wikipedia assignment when I had professor Cartwright for COMM 100B last year. At that time, I edited the page for 'Yellow rubber duck'. However, all my edits were modified on the next day which made my really frustrated. And soon I realized that Wikipedia is a very competitive platform; editors who have superb writing skills are more likely to avoid being modified.

I picked Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Wikipedia page to edit for the assignment. Adichie is a Nigerian feminist and writer. After spending hours reading her interviews and speech transcripts, I found that she mentioned feminism, gender issues, and sexuality in almost every interview she had. However, when I looked over her Wikipedia page, nothing related to gender construction is mentioned. Besides, she is described as a writer rather than a feminist. Therefore, I decided to add some information about her being a feminist in her Wiki page. I added a sub- section 'We should all be Feminists' under the section 'Lecture'. 'We should all be Feminists' is the title of a speech that Adichie gave on TED in 2012. She talked about her views on feminism and gender construction in the speech. She told stories and facts about gender issues as proves of the gender stereotypes around the world.

Her speech was later sampled in Beyonce's song 'Flawless'. Adichie expressed in interviews that she was happy with the sampling because more young people pay attention to feminism nowadays.

How the page looks before editing

In progress

I added a brief summary of the speech

I added some quotes

After editing

After editing

Here is the link of the Wiki page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimamanda_Ngozi_Adichie

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