Nigeria Can Deal With Boko-Haram Without Foreign Intervention - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has spoken out against Western intervention in the country. Speaking at the Hay Festival, she said:

"Now we have American drones helping us in this forest and even the French have sent in people – shouldn't they be fixing their own economy?" 

"We can solve our own damn problems," she added. 

"I'm sure that there are hunters in that area who know that forest very well. Why haven't they been used? Why aren't we depending on them? 

"What we need is a better equipped military, a better trained military: we don't need Americans to send people in." 

Stopping herself at this point, she joked: "This is my Nigerian nationalist rant".

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