Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie could be earning herself an unexpected accolade this weekend at The Grammys, where she’s nominated for ‘Album of The Year’ as part of Beyoncé’s self-titled LP.
The credit, of course, comes from “Flawless”, the Beyoncé single which uses a lengthy sample of Adichie’s ‘We Should All Be Feminists’ TEDxEuston speech, in which the writer urges audiences to dismiss the notion of feminism being inherently “un-African.”
As Beyoncé explains in the video below, “I was scrolling through videos about feminism on youtube and I ran across this video of this incredible Nigerian author, Chimamanda Adichie. Everything she said is exactly how I feel. ‘We raise girls to see each other as competitors. Not for jobs or for accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men.’”
The Grammy news comes a few days after Adichie penned ‘Lights Out in Nigeria,’ a New York Times op-ed on the quality of electricity in Nigeria, and had a personal piece about her struggles with depression published without permission by The Guardian.
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