Nigeria scored big again on the international scene, this time with Beyonce's amazing new album release (Lemonade) featuring a dazzling 55mins video that has got the whole world talking (and placed Jay-Z on a hot seat).

Beyonce personified the Yoruba Osun goddess in the video and referenced Chimamanda's poem in the video. Nigeria's top designer Maki oh also scored a product placement in the video as he is involved in some the artistic visuals used in the video.

See the exerpts below:

“Y'all think Beyoncé was just breaking windows, twerking and playing in water. No, she was portraying Oshun, a Yoruba Orisha,” Facebook user Tasha Robinson wrote in a post Sunday. “Sensual, sexual, beautiful Goddess [and] deity who is a healer, gives life, growth, luxury, change and prosperity. That was the message of Lemonade. Love, change and prosperity."

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https://www.bellanaija.com/2016/04/whoop-whoop-amandla-stenberg-wears-maki-oh-in-beyonces-lemonade-video/

Of Beyoncé's talents, her greatest might be her ability to make so many black women feel good and recognized in a world that actively tries to make them feel everything but. She makes my sister feel powerful, and my nieces feel beautiful and capable of achieving anything. She comforts, excites, and empowers my female friends in ways no man ever could. More often than not, Beyoncé makes art explicitly for black women. Of course, the rest of us are welcome to partake and enjoy, but her mission is clear.

The film is incredibly ambitious. It spans several locations, urban and rural, intimate and expansive. We watch her levitate; writhe in water; leap from a building; take bats to some presumably trifling man’s car. She also rents a stadium that has hosted the Super Bowl like it’s a PO box.


And love. On “***Flawless,” from her self-titled album, Beyoncé introduced some of her fans to Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. In LEMONADE, we hear adaptations of the poems "For Women Who Are Difficult to Love"


Source: Complex.com (http://www.complex.com/music/2016/04/beyonce-lemonade-film-essay?utm_campaign=complexmag&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&sr_share=facebook)

If you have enough data to spare, below is the link to the video:
http://gossiponthis.com/2016/04/24/video-watch-beyonce-lemonade-hbo-album-movie/