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The electricity and water are unreliable. Gas and food are scarce. Aunty Ifeoma lets children speak their minds without fear of punishment. They listen to popular music and watch television.
Kambili adjusts less easily. She must learn the simplest household tasks, and her cousin, Amaka, sneers at her for being rich. Kambili acts shy and nervous.
Father Amadi, a handsome young priest, tries to bring Kambili out of her shell. He encourages her to run, sing, and smile. While helping take care of Papa-Nnukwu, Kambili and Jaja get to know him and hear his stories. After dinner, Papa punishes them for not telling him about Papa-Nnukwu, and he forces Kambili to stand in boiling water. Later, Kambili and Jaja show each other their secret souvenirs from Nsukka.
Kambili has a watercolor portrait of Papa-Nnukwu, painted by Amaka. They keep their secrets as the political situation worsens and Papa becomes ever more tense. Leaders of the pro-democracy movement warn Papa that he is in danger. A pipe bomb kills Ade Coker. One day, Papa discovers the portrait of Papa-Nnukwu and erupts in rage.
He kicks Kambili until she falls unconscious. Hostilities erupted in January of when a political coup was initiated by several Igbos within the Nigerian Military.
Among them was Major General Johnson T. The following year, the South-East state of Biafra was declared. Nigeria, fearing the loss of control over vital oil fields now occupied by Biafra, took up arms against this breakout state. An economic blockade was enforced on Biafra, which led to a devastating depletion of resources in the region. The blockade would later move to include oil, but the most significant effect would be the loss of civilian life due to malnourishment and extreme famine.
The civil war ended in , but the idea of an independent Biafran state lives on. Human Rights Watch has catalogued these abuses here. The character of Ade Choke is said to be inspired by real-life journalist Dele Giwa, who was himself killed by a mail bomb at his home in Lagos in And in , writer Ken Saro-Wiwa was executed and his body was burned with acid and thrown into an unmarked grave , similar to how the character Nwankiti Ogechi is killed in the novel The redeeming and innovative air of democracy became very compelling, so that Nigerians embraced it with their hearts.
In Purple Hibiscus , Chimananda Ngozi Adichie has found a way of not only expressing the horror of child abuse in the closed-off home sphere, but of critiquing the abusive and corrupt leadership of the young Nigerian nation and its persecution of those who opposed it.
As such, research into the prevalence of violence in the family has been conducted by individuals and organisations. In a recent small-scale study of gender inequality in Lagos and Oyo states , 40 percent of the women interviewed said they had been victims of violence in the family, in some cases for several years. While newer data is not available, the problem of violence against women is clearly still a huge issue. In the study, interviews were conducted with women in various workplaces, and with girls and young women in secondary school and at university in Lagos State.
In Lagos State, Husbands, partners and fathers are responsible for most of the violence against these women, while the courts and police often dismiss domestic violence as a family matter and refuse to investigate or press charge, thereby offering little to no protection for women.
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