From Half of a Yellow Sun to Americanah, Chimamanda Adichie's books have always proved to be the best of source materials in movie making.
One of the stories in her from her critically-acclaimed collection The Thing Around Her Neck, is set to be adapted to a film.
Adichie sold the film adaptation rights of "On Monday of Last Week" to Ghanaian director Adoma Akosua Owusu and her Ghanaian-based production company, Obibini Pictures.
The Guggenheim Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the understanding and appreciation of art, has volunteered to support the project.
A $30,000 (120 million Naira) Kickstarter campaign is also underway.
The Ghanaian director Adoma Owusu told the press that she: “was compelled to 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 avant-garde cinema, fine art, and African tradition to complicate the nature of identity.”
Nigerian actress Chinasa Ogbuagu, who recently starred in the Off-Broadway play Sojourners, will appear as the short story’s protagonist Kamara.
Two other books from the Nigerian author have been made into movies: 2014’s Half of a Yellow Sun starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, John Boyega, Thandie Newton and Anika Noni Rose; and the Lupita Nyong’o-produced Americanah, which has yet to be released.
On Monday of Last Week will be the first time one of Adichie’s short stories will be optioned for film.
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