Little Girls Recreating Nyong’o and Adichie’s Look Is Next Level Cuteness
Brace up for so much cuteness ahead!
Two young Nigerian girls picked Lupita Nyong’o and Chimamanda Adichie‘s iconic looks and adapted them as their own; looking absolutely fabulous in the process.
A proud Nigerian mother, Funke Mapaderun shared the photos. Mapaderun used her daughter and her friend to recreate the looks in celebration of the International Women’s Day.
She added a very sweet caption:
“In honor of International Women’s Day, I am sharing my recreation of the inspirational photo of @lupitanyongo and @chimamanda_adichie and their looks made by @imadeduso_ ?
Here’s to strong women.
May we know them, she continued May we be them.
May we raise them.
Happy International Women’s Day!.“
The look is reminiscent of what the Kenyan-born Hollywood actress and the celebrated Nigerian writer wore to a recent event in Lagos.
Americanah the series
Lupita Nyong’o, visited Nigeria to promote her screen-adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie‘s best-selling novel, Americanah.
American subscription video-on-demand streaming service, HBO Max, gave a straight-to-series order for the Americanah project in 2019.
Nyong’o doubles as Executive Producer of the show.
Nyong’o’s Black Panther co-star, Danai Gurira, wrote the pilot and will serve as show runner on the 10-episode limited series.
Similarly, the 10-episode series which will debut on HBO Max also stars David Oyelowo, Momoh Uzo and other screen stars.
Americanah tells the epic story of Ifemelu ( Lupita Nyong’o), a young, beautiful, self-assured woman raised in Nigeria, who as a teenager falls in love with her classmate Obinze (Momoh Uzo).
Living in a military-ruled country, they each depart for the west, with Ifemelu heading for America. Where, despite her academic success; she is forced to grapple for the first time with what it means to be black. Quite, thoughtful Obinze had hoped to join her, but with post-9/11 America closed to him, he instead plunges into a dangerous undocumented life in London.
