Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, about a romance which endures through the Biafran war in Nigeria, has been made into a movie starring Thandie Newton who recently spoke about the film, her experience with racism and her African heritage in a recent interview.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie author of, Americanah, is a finalist for the 2014 Andrew Carnegie Excellence in Fiction Award. Americanah, follows the journey of two young Nigerian people as they adapt to foreign countries. Their lives take them back to Nigeria where they reconnect and find themselves in their roots. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has earned a multitude of praise and is set to become a movie starring Lupita Nyong’o.
