"On Monday of Last Week" is a short story from Adichie's book The Thing Around Your Neck and will be coordinated by Ghanaian-American maker and movie producer, Akosua Adoma Owusu.
Akosua got the film adjustment rights to Chimamanda Adichie's book which will be created under her generation house, Obibini Pictures.
Nigerian performer Chinasa Ogbuagu, from Sojourners will play the lead character of Kamara.
Kamara is a sitter to a center school-matured child of a rich American couple whose guardians are to a great degree occupied. With a craftsman mum and an over-defensive father.
The storyline is plotted in woman's rights, migration, and family.
''I was inspired to adapt Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s short story On Monday of Last Week after living in Ghana for two years promoting Kwaku Ananse, a coming of age film adaptation of popular mythology from Africa and the African diaspora.
This film was my first attempt at making a fiction narrative short. Traveling to festivals and museum institutions around the world, I was compelled to return to the States and create a new work by adapting literature from contemporary African writers.
The themes of race, liberalism and sexuality in Adichie’s short story On Monday of Last Week resonated with my films on the “triple consciousness” of the African immigrant as I transition between experimental cinema, fine art and African tradition to complicate the nature of identity.
On Monday of Last Week is very much in line with themes I’ve explored in previous works, specifically conventional beauty and identity, including my award-winning short Me Broni Ba (2009) and my forthcoming feature Black Sunshine''.
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