Cast announced for the movie adaptation of "On Monday of Last Week"

Some few months back, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie announced that one of the stories in 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.

Announced today, the award-winning filmmaker has secured her cast which include Nigerian Chinasa Ogbuagu, who recently starred in the Off-Broadway play Sojourners, will appear as the short story’s protagonist Kamara.

Other actors include Peter Rini from “Orange is the New Black”, Karyn Parsons, Jill Shackner and 4-year old model, Farouk James Prempeh.

“On Monday of Last Week” tells the story of Kamara, a Nigerian woman, on her journey to self-realization. Hired as a nanny in Tracy and Neil’s home, Kamara develops an attraction to Tracy, going to great lengths to impress her. The result becomes a journey that is as much internal and emotional, as it is external and physical. Kamara finds herself wrestling with concepts of attraction and beauty, identity and self-worth.

Owusu is not new to film directing and production, she has produced award-winning films like Reluctantly Queer, which was nominated for the Golden Bear and Teddy Award at the Berlinale, Berlin International Film Festival in 2016, and Kwaku Ananse,which received the 2013 African Movie Academy Award in Nigeria for Best Short Film.

Two other books from the Chimamanda Adichie have been made into movies: 2014’s Half of a Yellow Sun starring Chiwetel Ejiofor,John Boyega, Thandie Newton and Anika Noni Rose; and theLupita 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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