Beyoncé’s new visual album Black Is King is making waves, but the exciting part is that there are two African writers at the heart of the project. Warsan Shire’s poetry is featured while Yrsa Daley-Ward is one of the writers of the film. This is the third time that Beyoncé is featuring African writers in […]
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Ainehi Edoro’s Feminism in African Lit Course at UW-Madison Theorizes Mona Eltahawy, Nnedi Okorafor, Titilope Sonuga, Wanuri Kahiu, & Beyonce
As part of her Spring 2020 programme, Brittle Paper founder Ainehi Edoro will be teaching a course, “Feminism in Contemporary African Literature,” at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of English, where she is Assistant Professor, and the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies. The course, she wrote in a Facebook post, is inspired by the Egyptian […]
Chimamanda Adichie Finally Addresses the Beyonce Feminism Controversy
It all started when the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant published the excerpt of an interview in which Adichie was quoted as saying: “Beyonce’s feminism is not my feminism.” Bait for Beyonce fans, bait for anti-feminists. The statement was widely read as Adichie throwing some serious shade on Beyonce. African social media communities erupted in a heated debate […]
Imperialism-in-Artistry: Bob Dylan’s Nobel Win Is Proof Adichie Is Right about Beyonce | by Otosirieze Obi-Young
IN A RECENT INTERVIEW with the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant, ahead of the Dutch translation of her We Should All Be Feminists chapbook, Chimamanda Adichie disclosed, in news that is now viral, that she would never perform expectations of gratefulness to Beyonce for sampling her work. Roughly a week after this news surfaced, on 13 October, […]
“Keep misleading these young girls” | Bella Naija Commenters Come for Adichie over Her Beyonce Shade
So Adichie threw some epic shade on Beyonce, and it’s causing a lot of problems. Recall that a few years ago, Beyonce featured Adichie on a track in her surprise album. Also recall that everyone and their mother have tried to get Adichie to talk about the collaboration without much success. Adichie has finally broken […]
Did Beyonce Rescue Adichie’s Americanah From Being a Sales Flop?
In Amazon’s top 10,000 best selling books list, Americanah ranked #861 the day before Beyonce sampled her TED talk on feminism in the song titled, “Flawless.” Eleven days later and after a 600 jump through the ranks, Americanah was the 179th best selling book on Amazon. The jump from the 800s to the 100s is nothing short of miraculous. […]
Massive Collaboration Alert! Adichie Lays Down A Verse In Beyonce’s New Album
Can’t contain the excitement I feel thinking about how cool it is that Beyonce and Chimamanda get to work together and that both women are drawn to each other’s passion for feminism. Not to make too much of it, but it’s got to count for something, in the contemporary African literary scene, that Adichie and […]
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