Commencement Address

Section B Commencement Address In 2015 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie delivered a commencement address at a graduation ceremony at Wellesley College – a private women’s liberal arts college in the USA. In the speech Adichie talks about women’s privileges as they are now, and gives her opinion on how they should be. Adichie opens her speech in a traditional way: “Hello class of 2015. Congratulations! And thank you for that wonderful welcome. And thank you President Bottomly for that wonderful introduction.” Immediately afterwards she gives an introduction to the main theme of her speech – women’s privileges. The speech is divided