Hollywood superstar, Beyonce the American sensational singer has featured and sample Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in her latest music album.
Beyonce music album that came out yesterday without any fanfare or pre-release promotion featured Adichie in the track from the album video called “flawless.”
Ngozi Adichie is the author of many important novels including her latest acclaimed work, “Americanah," that explored race in America from a perspective of a Nigerian student in Ivy League college.
Adichie is also the author of "Half a Yellow Sun," a novel that focused on a love story that took place during the vexing Nigeria-Biafra civil war that millions of souls perished that Nigeria is still struggling to move away from the episodic event.
"We Should All Be Feminists," that featured in Beyonce’s "Flawless" was extracted from different segments of Adichie’s speech delivered in London at TEDxEuston, it goes:
We teach girls to shrink themselves
To make themselves smaller
We say to girls
"You can have ambition
But not too much
You should aim to be successful
But not too successful
Otherwise you will threaten the man"
Because I am female
I am expected to aspire to marriage
I am expected to make my life choices
Always keeping in mind that
Marriage is the most important
Now marriage can be a source of
Joy and love and mutual support
But why do we teach to aspire to marriage
And we don't teach boys the same?
We raise girls to each other as competitors
Not for jobs or for accomplishments
Which I think can be a good thing
But for the attention of men
We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings
In the way that boys are
Feminist: the person who believes in the social
Political, and economic equality of the sexes
Both Beyonce and Ngozi Adichie will gain from the collaboration. It projects Beyonce as a serious person that appreciates higher intellectual reasoning with regards to feminist progressivism. As for Adichie her writings will become utilitarian crossover to audiences in pop and hip pop that would never been exposed to the intellectual and gallant writer.