Adichie And Lorde's Childhood: A Comparison

Both Adichie and Lorde “acknowledge that women have variable experiences that differ in extremism and also in form” (Gatwiri and McLaren 202). Therefore, they both try not to generalize; instead, they call people to study their identities. Both Gatwiri and McLaren, authors of “Discovering my own Black Feminism: Embarking on a Journey to explore Kenyan Women’s Oppression,” claim that women often “feel the constant pressure to justify [their] views” (203). This particular claim relates to both Adichie and Lorde’s point that women have to prove their worth. Moreover, Gatwiri and McLaren support Adichie and Lorde’s argument that the West conceptualizes “third world Black women as being in need” (203). In this sense, all four authors agree on the