Acclaimed Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's short story is being adapted into a film

Another work by acclaimed Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is set to be adapted to a film. This time it will be a short story from her critically-acclaimed collection "The Thing Around Her Neck" , first published in 2009.

The award-winning Nigerian author agreed to sell the film adaptation rights of " On Monday of Last Week" to Ghanaian director Adoma Akosua Owusu and her Ghanaian-based production company, Obibini Pictures.
"I was compelled to create a new work by adapting literature from contemporary African writers," Owusu (pictured) says. "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…"
The short story, which was first published in the literary magazine Granta, explores Kamara, a Nigerian immigrant, who becomes obsessed with the wealthy mother of the boy she babysits.
Two other works of the Nigerian author have been optioned to become movies: 2014’s " Half of a Yellow Sun" starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, 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.