Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie speaks about police killings in America. "I think I'm so emotionally exhausted by the murders"

Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Wednesday, spoke about racial issues in America and the continual reports of black people killed by police.

In her novel Americanah, her protagonist, Ifemelu, starts a blog about race in America from her perspective as a Nigerian immigrant.
The blog, called “Raceteenth or Various Observations About American Blacks (Those Formerly Known as Negroes) by a Non-­American Black," is funny as well as insightful.

"The blog in Americanah—I wanted it to be funny. I wanted to poke fun, because I think many of the ways race manifests itself in this country are actually quite funny so I hoped that people would laugh," Adichie said at the Washington Ideas Forum, an event produced by The Aspen Institute and The Atlantic.

Her interviewer, Mary Louise Kelly, a contributing editor at The Atlantic, asked what Ifemelu might say about racial issues in America today.

"I think what’s going on now just doesn’t give me room for humor," Adichie said. "I think that I’m so emotionally exhausted by the murders that I don’t think I could find any space to wrap humor around what’s been happening in the past one year, two years."

"It’s not just that you shoot a man who’s unarmed, it’s that you handcuff him when he’s clearly dying," she said. "There’s something about it that’s so unforgivably inhumane and to think that his race is part of the reason ... I really do think that one of the terrible things about racism in this country, is there’s a sense that blackness isn’t really seen as fully human in many quarters. I think that’s why these things happen. I think that’s why a man who is dying is handcuffed, that’s why a boy who is dead is left on the street for hours. It makes me wonder: What’s happened to that part of us that is good?"

An earlier part of Adichie and Kelly’s conversation focused on the power of storytelling to humanize, so Kelly asked, "Do you think you’ll be able to find a way to write about that?

"Many times I 've wanted to and I 've started," Adichie said. "But I almost always feel that language has failed me. So I don't know."

'Gernot Rohr is an old man, I have no problem with his assistants' - Super Eagles head coach Salisu Yusuf

Ahead of the important Russia 2018 World Cup qualifier between the Super Eagles of Nigeria and Zambia next month, Super Eagles head coach Salisu Yusuf has revealed that he gets on well with the Foreign Technical adviser of the Super Eagles, Gernot Rohr even though he's 'an old man'.

'Our relationship is very good, very good,'' He told Linda Ikeji's Blog  'You know he's an old man, he tries to go along with everybody and brings everybody together which is good so he brings his experience'

Salisu also revealed that he hasn't yet signed a contract with the NFF, but he isn't worried as it's just a matter of 'when' rather than 'if'.

'The NFF lawyer wasn't around, my contract situation will soon be resolved, i don't know the length of the contract but it should be like that of the white man'- Salisu revealed to LIB.

When asked if he had problems or clash of interests with the foreign assistants Gernot Rohr brought to Nigeria to work with, he rejected the notion.

'They are good guys, everyone minds his job, minds his business, we are working together as a chain but everyone has his own job to achieve our target. I have no problem with them'

Salisu also stated that he believed Nigeria will do well against Zambia next month.

'Look at the caliber of players we invited, 80 percent of the players play regularly for their foreign clubs, so we hope to do well against Zambia' 'We will be ready