10 Books By African-American Authors To Watch For
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, May 2013
Nigeria-born author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has won several awards, including the Orange Prize for 2007’s Half the Yellow Sun and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for 2003’s Purple Hibiscus. Her latest novel, Americanah, follows the lives of two young lovers from Nigeria as they grow apart and come back together.