Cameroonian-Nigerian singer, Reprudencia Sonkey, popularly known as Dencia, has launched an attack on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie over the latter’s criticism of former US First Lady Hillary Clinton’s Twitter bio.
Speaking at a PEN World Voices Festival lecture at the Cooper Union in Manhattan, New York on Sunday, Chimamanda queried Mrs Clinton for beginning her Twitter bio with ‘wife’, rather than her career achievements.
“In your Twitter account, the first word that describes you is ‘Wife.’ And then I think it’s ‘Mom,’ and then it’s ‘Grandmother,’” Chimamanda said. “And when I saw that, I have to confess that I felt just a little bit upset. And then I went and I looked at your husband’s Twitter account, and the first word was not ‘husband’.”
The statement caused a social media storm on Monday, with many condemning the award-winning writer for taking her feminist campaign too far.
One of the unsparing critics is Dencia, who said many of Chimamanda’s followers don’t know she is married with kids.
She added that she can bet $10k Chimamanda “cooks, cleans, feeds her husband and is the average African woman at home.”
Dear chimanda, u aren’t a feminist if u are telling a female what to do.Weirdest thing is,chimanda’s followers I know don’t know she’s married with a kid.I can bet $10k she cooks, cleans, feeds her husband & is the average african woman at home.Let women live how they want.
— Dencia (@IamDencia) April 23, 2018
An angry Dencia described Chimamanda’s thinking like that of a “backword clock”.
Whatever her name is, the feminist lady who thinks like a backword clock https://t.co/FExok2ejUu
— Dencia (@IamDencia) April 23, 2018
Those thinking of marriage, she said, should do a psychiatric evaluation of their partners to make sure they do not end up marrying crazy wives or husbands.
All ye future married folks need to get psychiatric evaluations of ur partners before ending up with crazy wives or Husbands,Infact they should enforce that.Pastors can’t evaluate y’all better than psychiatrists .Save urself future problems.
— Dencia (@IamDencia) April 24, 2018
Feminism isn’t about women & men, marriage bla bla bla so why question a woman about being a wife since feminism has nothing to do with it?Why are u upset at another woman who is more accomplished than u represents herself? Y’all need 2 have ur facts straight.
— Dencia (@IamDencia) April 24, 2018
Chimamanda is married to Ivara Esege and they have a daughter together.
Dencia, 30, has a reputation for trolling celebs on social media.
She has tackled Yemi Alade for saying she should quit singing, and Wizkid for having an affair with his manager.
