Why am I passionate about this?
I am a political economist committed to building a better world for all. In my academic work, I explore the obstacles to human flourishing and the best policies to promote more equitable development. The growing concentration of wealth among a small elite have become one of our most significant challenges to create better societies. In a growing number of countries, the wealthy control more than a third of all the income generated every year, contributing to social discontent and reducing the opportunities for the majority. I want to convince everyone out there about the urgency of understanding why inequality takes place, why it is costly and how we can fight against it is.
D.'s book list on inequality as one of our significant challenges
Why did D. love this book?
Great fiction books can teach us how inequality operates in everyday life better than any scientific research.
Americanah is the love story of Ifemelu and Obinze, whose lives diverge when one moves to the US and the other to the UK to converge fifteen years later back in Nigeria.
Through their life stories, we understand what intersectionality really means: class, gender, and race interact to make inequality and discrimination particularly problematic.
Adichie is a fantastic writer who combines humor and kindness to reflect the complexities of contemporary inequality within and across borders.
3 authors picked Americanah as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
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Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria. Self-assured Ifemelu heads for America. But quiet, thoughtful Obinze finds post-9/11 America closed to him, and plunges into a dangerous undocumented life in London.
Fifteen years later, they reunite in a newly democratic Nigeria,…