I must at least give official thanks to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, an amazing Nigerian feminist & novelist, for helping me find a good blog title...The Happy Feminist comes from her. In her country, where feminism is seen more as a disease than an actual political stand, she has had in the past to define herself as a "happy African Feminist who does not hate men and who wears high heels for herself and not for men".
In Nigeria, she was tagged as being corrupted by the West, Feminism being off course for african culture haters, or being simply unable to find a husband (the true definition of a feminist according to some in her home country).
Do not miss out her speech at TED. She is truely inspiring.
We should all be feminists: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie at TEDxEuston
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg3umXU_qWc
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