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Lupita Nyong’o To Produce, Star in Chimamanda Adichie’s ‘Americanah’

 


Just coming off of the good news that Kenyan actress Lupita Nyong’o (pictured) has nabbed a role in the upcoming “Star Wars” saga, it has now been announced that the Oscar-winning thespian will produce and star in a film based off of Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie‘s (pictured below) best-selling book “Americanah.”

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“Americanah” is about two Nigerians, “Ifemelu” and “Obinze,” who fall in love but are separated due to immigration problems and has garnered a number of accolades, including being named one of the best 10 books of the year by the New York Times Book Review, the BBC, and Newsday.

In addition, it won the U.S. National Book Critics Circle Award in 2013.

Of her involvement in the upcoming film, which is being made by actor Brad Pitt‘s Plan B company, Nyong’o says, “Page after page I was struck by Ifemelu and Obinze’s stories, whose experiences as African immigrants are so specific and also so imminently relatable,” said Nyong’o.

“It is a thrilling challenge to tell a truly international story so full of love, humour and heart.”

Adichie’s “Half of a Yellow Sun” was also turned into a film and stars Chiwetel Ejiofor and Thandie Newton.

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Abena Agyeman-Fisher

Abena Agyeman-Fisher is the Editor-in-Chief of Face2Face Africa. Most recently, she worked for Interactive One as the Senior Editor of NewsOne, she worked for AOL as the News Programming Manager of Black Voices, which later became HuffPo Black Voices, and for the New York Times Company as an Associate Health Editor. Abena, a Spelman College graduate, has been published in Al Jazeera, the Daily Beast, New Jersey’s The Star-Ledger, the Grio, BlackVoices, West Orange Patch, About.com, the Source, Vibe, Vibe Vixen, Jane, and Upscale Magazines. She has interviewed top celebrities, icons, and politicians, such as First Lady Michelle Obama, Senior Advisor to the President Valerie Jarrett, Civil Rights activist and diplomat Andrew Young, comedian Bill Cosby, Grammy Award-winning singer Jill Scott, actress and singer Queen Latifah, Olympic Gold winner Cullen Jones, international supermodel Alek Wek, and five-division world champion boxer Floyd Mayweather. Most recently, she served as the First Lady’s press reporter during President Barack Obama’s U.S.-Africa Summit, Young African Leaders Institute event, and the 2013 presidential trip to Senegal, Johannesburg, Cape Town, and Tanzania. Abena is also a 2015 International Women's Media Foundation Africa Great Lakes Fellow, where she reported on women candidates and Chinese sweatshops in Tanzania for CNN and Refinery29.

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