Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions is an epistolary work written as a letter from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to her childhood friend, Ijeawele. The text serves as a response to Ijeawele's request for guidance on raising her newborn daughter, Chizalum, as a feminist. As detailed in the Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions Wikipedia entry, the work provides fifteen practical suggestions intended to empower a daughter to become a strong and independent woman. These suggestions include advice on avoiding gender-stereotyped toys and debunking the myth that women are biologically programmed for domestic roles rather than careers.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian writer born in 1977 in Enugu, Nigeria, and is recognized as a central figure in postcolonial feminist literature. Growing up in Nsukka, her father was a professor and her mother served as the first female Registrar at the University of Nigeria. According to Britannica, her literary body of work includes the internationally acclaimed novel Half of a Yellow Sun, the short story collection The Thing Around Your Neck, and the novel Americanah. Her nonfiction, such as We Should All Be Feminists, further explores the intersections of identity, race, and gender.