USA Africa Dialogue Series - Adichie Weighs in on DSK vs Diallo "the maid"

Newsweek must be having a very slooooow day. Evidence: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie weighs in on the DSK/ Diallo maid case with an armada of psychobabble and stereotypical nonsense here. 

Hear Adichie: "I know women like Nafissatou Diallo. Women who, like me, are West African but, unlike me, do not have the privilege of education or a middle-class upbringing. On television, she was familiar: the skin tone that suggested cheap bleaching creams, the ambitious hair weave, the melodrama. An American friend of mine thought her interview too theatrical and therefore unbelievable. Instead, I saw a woman speaking a non-native language, and so compensating with gestures; a woman both grateful and intimidated to finally tell her story; a woman whose way of looking at the world is vastly different from that of most of her viewers. Diallo comes from a place where melodrama is not unusual, and often suggests truth as much as lies."

My response: Adichie is babbling unadulterated drivel. Must she say something all the time? I sometimes wish these "African writers" would think about the consequences of their utterances. Who cares whether Diallo is a small time Walter Mitty turning tricks for a quick buck? Why is this now turning into a novel? Are we not human beings? Are we not entitled to our own losers, just like the other? If this character had been from the hills of Tennessee would newspapers have gone to her "village"? Why can't we have common criminals like the other? WHAT is wrong with this picture?

- Ikhide