Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyongo is to star in and produce an - TopicsExpress



          

Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyongo is to star in and produce an adaptation of Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichies acclaimed novel Americanah. It will be made by Brad Pitts company Plan B, The same producers of 12 Years a Slave which won Nyongo an Oscar in February. Americanah centres on two young Nigerians, Ifemelu and Obinze, who are separated after falling in love. Determined to leave a nation riven by military dictatorship, Ifemelu secures a place at an American university. Obinze is unable to secure a visa for a country suffering the aftermath of 9/11 and instead suffers as an undocumented immigrant in London. Adichies book won the 2013 US National Book Critics Circle award for fiction and was named one of the 10 best books of the year by The New York Times Book Review.Adichie is the 36-year-old author of Purple Hibiscus and Half Of A Yellow Sun which has also recently been made into a film
Posted on: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 17:00:00 +0000

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