Watch Chimamanda Adichie
By Nyak Lam
Watch Chimamanda Adichie
You say we are useless
We are useless because
We were born girls
That our mother made the grievous
Mistake in the world
That giving birth to a baby girl
Is a crime
Watch Chimamanda Adichie
The best African female Writer
The best novel winning award
Not just in Africa
But in the entire world
She was awarded with 16 doctorate honouring awards
From the best universities in the world,
Harvard awarded her. John Hopkins awarded her.
Yale University awarded her. American University
Awarded her
Many and many other universities in Africa
And the rest of the world awarded her.
Watch her if you think a woman is useless.
Watch Chimamanda Adichie
She is the best African female writer
Her books are read in schools
Half of the Yellow Sun,
Has won her fame
All over
And has been integrated in the curriculum
And used as a syllabus book
In most parts of the world,
Watch her if you think a girl is useless.
Watch Chimamanda Adichie!
She is the best female speaker
She has delivered the best speeches
Ever in the global world.
Despite being a Black woman,
She was invited to deliver speeches
In UK, USA, Germany, Common Wealth Conferences,
UN Summits,
And countless Universities graduations
In and outside Africa.
Watch Chimamanda Adichie!
She is a woman,
She is like us,
She can’t cook, because she is a woman
She can’t wash, because she is a woman,
She can’t fetch because she is a woman,
Whatever she does whether cooking, watching,
Cleaning or other home chores,
She does because she wants to.
Not because she is a woman.
Watch Chimamanda Adichie!
She got married,
Not as a slave,
Not as a machine for man,
Not to be beaten by man,
Not to be used as a sex object by man,
But to fulfil Creator’s command
Her husband respects her
She is treated like a king
Though rather a queen by her husband,
But she is a woman like us.
Watch her and change your mind.
Watch Chimamanda Adichie!
The chief of Ibo Land!
The first woman to be made a chief
In the history of Africa!
She has broken the culture!
The culture that oppresses women!
African men torture women
And they call it a culture.
They enslaved women
And they shamelessly call it a culture.
Thanks to Adichie.
No culture now.
Men and women are the same.
They must share the same privileges.
Watch Chimamanda Adichie!
She is now a chief!
Watch her!
You think a woman can’t rule a man,
Watch her.
You think a woman doesn’t have brain,
Watch her.
You think a woman doesn’t have heart,
Watch her.
You think a woman can’t command a man,
Watch her.
You think a woman is inferior to man,
Watch her.
You think a woman isn’t a full human being,
Watch her.
Father, Watch Chimamanda!
You chased us away with our mother,
You cursed God because of us,
We are now living as orphans,
Only our mother and uncles
Struggle for our education,
You said you can’t waste your money.
Paying us in school
That our education makes you
Feel paralyzed.
You are wrong.
Just watch her.
Go to Google
Watch her.
Go to YouTube
Watch her
Go to other media programs.
Watch her
Watch Chimamanda!
Listen, Father!
You are wrong!
You must repent!
Your culture is wrong!
My two sisters are
In the university now
I am in my fourth year
Of my secondary education now
We will all finish
And prove your culture wrong.
You will come
And kneel before us
Just watch Adichie.
Watch Chimamanda, Father!
You must listen to her
I know it won’t be easy
For you to listen
Since you haven’t gone
To school
And speak even a single word in English.
Your father taught you to depend only on your sisters
You thought your sisters are your income
And you didn’t care going to school.
But since this is serious
See your friend
To translate for you.
We are ready to forgive you
If you are Willy to change
Your culture and understand
That it is not a curse to have daughters
It is a blessing instead
We have learned about God
And have understood that
We must forgive though hard.
Change your mind and come to us.
You are our father
And we always pray for you
Our mother said that she is ready
To forgive you.
Watch Chimamanda and we will forgive.