Middle-Class Reduced To Beggars, Chimamanda Decries Hardship In Nigeria \u2022 Channels Television
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Iconic Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie says the suffering of ordinary Nigerians is what worries her most about the country\u2019s current economic situation.<\/strong><\/p>\n Chimamanda\u00a0lamented that the ongoing hardship has reduced many middle-class Nigerians, who were previously managing to get by, to the point of begging.<\/p>\n In an exclusive interview on Channels Television\u2019s Amazing Africans, Adichie stated that the most important political judgment one can make is based on how ordinary citizens are faring.<\/p>\n \u201cLife has become so hard in Nigeria, and me I can see it. For example, people who were formerly kind of securely middle class, not that life was rosy for them, but they got by\u2014are now people who beg and are in need. That worries me greatly,\u201d Adichie said.<\/p>\n \u201cThe level of suffering, how expensive food has become\u2026 I think the biggest political judgment one can make is about the lives of ordinary people.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople talk about the stock market. Personally, I don\u2019t really care about those sorts of things. What I care about is: that person earning minimum wage, how is that person getting on in this economy? It\u2019s the suffering that worries me the most. And it\u2019s terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n