"America loves winners, but victory does not absolve" Chimamanda Adichie on moral duty in the wake of Trump's election

In a post published on The New Yorker, acclaimed Nigerian writer writes on race, identity, politics, misogyny, the media and our moral duty after the election of Donald Trump as the President of America. Read below. "America has always been aspirational to me, Even when I chafed at its hypocrisies, it somehow always seemed sure, a nation that knew what it was doing,

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