Beyonce released a surprising
self-titled album today, Friday December 13, 2013 – this is the singer’s 5th album
in her solo career. Interestingly, the singer features Nigerian award winning
writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in one of her track “Flawless”.
Wait a minute, is Chimamanda
now a singer? Not really, the writer only did something that is reminiscent of
the one on Madonna's ‘What It Feels Like
For a Girl’. She only features in a spoken word screed against sexism.
See Chimamanda’s line below,
“We
teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller.
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
A
marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support
But
why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don’t teach boys the same?
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
We
teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are
Feminist:
A person who believes in the economic, social and political equality of the
sexes.”
See a preview video for the Flawless
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