HBO Max Orders Lupita Nyong’o and Danai Gurira’s TV Adaptation of Adichie’s Americanah
HBO Max, an American media platform that will launch in 2020, recently announced that it has ordered ten episodes of Americanah, an upcoming TV show by Lupita Nyong’o that is based on Chimamanda Adichie’s infamous book, Americanah. In 2014, Lupita Nyong’o bought the rights to make a film out of Americanah. She planned to star […]
An Evening With Chimamanda Adichie: What You Missed
Unlike many would have thought, An Evening with Chimamanda did not turn into a heated argument on feminism. Rather, it was an evening filled with excitement and intellectual discussions bothering on feminism, bride price, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s love for Nigerian-made clothing, a few writing tips and a sneak peak on her next moves. Chimamanda graced the […]
The Character I did not like in Adichie’s Americanah
Obinze’s wife, Kosi in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah was one character I did not like. She was a people pleaser. She strived so hard to be perfect. At home, she tried to create the ideal family life. At social events, her constant effort to please everyone was sickening. She was a good wife to Obinze […]
Americanah by Chimamanda Adichie
Americanah is a novel written by Chimamanda Adichie, published in May 2013. The book has won the Heartland Prize, the U.S. National Book Critic Circle Award, has been selected as one of the ten best books of 2013 by the New York Time Book Review and was nominated for the Baileys Women Prize for Fiction […]
Nigerian Author, Chimamanda Adichie, Wins Fiction Prize
Nigerian author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s ‘Americanah’, a fictional novel about race and identity, has won the prestigious National Book Critics Circle prize for fiction. Adichie’s novel was selected over ‘The Goldfinch’ by author Donna Tartt and three other finalists. Other winners at the event held yesterday in Manhattan, New York, includes Frank Bidart’s ‘Metaphysical Dog’ for poetry […]
Chimamanda’s ‘Americanah’ Named BBC’s 2013 Best Book
The book ‘Americanah’ by Nigerian author, Chimamanda Adichie, has been named by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) as the 2013 Best Book. Chimamanda Adichie, whose work recently got sampled on American R&B queen, Beyonce’s new album which hit the market few days ago and broke iTunes record and also went ahead to hit platinum status few […]
In Case You Missed Chimamanda’s Book Signing…
Saturday evening saw a large crowd at Terrakulture. I sat at the restaurant, sipping my fruit juice and smiling in comradeship at the others who also sat there to pass time. I did it discreetly though, couldn’t have them thinking I was a psycho. So these were my fellow fans. Some were dressed casually […]