{"id":27375,"date":"2014-06-02T11:51:06","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T10:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=27375"},"modified":"2014-06-02T11:51:06","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T10:51:06","slug":"boko-haram-we-can-solve-on-our-own-damn-problems-chimamanda-adichie-slams-foreign-intervention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/boko-haram-we-can-solve-on-our-own-damn-problems-chimamanda-adichie-slams-foreign-intervention\/","title":{"rendered":"Boko Haram: \u201cWe can solve on our own damn problems\u201d \u2013 Chimamanda Adichie slams foreign intervention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 6px 0px; color: #141823; font-size: 14.4px; line-height: 15.456px; text-align: justify;\">Respected award wining writer and civil activist, Chimamanda Adichie has said that Nigeria does not need help from Western powers to combat Boko Haram.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 6px 0px; color: #141823; font-size: 14.4px; line-height: 15.456px; text-align: justify;\">Adichie who was personally effected by the tragedy as her family was forced to flee the region says foreign countries like America and France should solve their own economic problems and leave Nigeria to fend for itself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div style=\"display: inline; color: #141823; font-size: 14.4px; line-height: 15.456px; text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0px  0px  6px;\">She said, \u201cNow we have American drones helping us in this forest and even the French have sent in people \u2013 shouldn\u2019t they be fixing their own economy?\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 6px  0px;\">\u201cWe can solve our own damn problems,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 6px  0px;\">Adichie however expressed her gratitude for the international adoption of the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #3b5998; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/bringbackourgirls?source=feed_text&amp;story_id=10203797929249974\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #6d84b4;\">\u202a#\u200e<\/span><span>BringBackourgirls\u202c<\/span><\/a>\u00a0campaign which she clarified was started domestically in Nigeria before international media caught on and forced a stronger response to the incident.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 6px  0px;\">\u201cIt was very much a grassroots social media Nigerian campaign. The fact that westerners are sharing in something started locally is fine with me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 6px  0px;\">\u201cI recognise that the campaign made a difference. People paid attention and then the [Nigerian] government had to sit up a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 6px  0px;\">Adichie wondered why Boko Haram abductors were being looked for by American Drones instead of by local Nigerian intelligence sources.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 6px  0px;\">\u201cI\u2019m sure that there are hunters in that area who know that forest very well. Why haven\u2019t they been used? 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