Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Wins US National Critics Book Prize For Her Novel "Americanah"

Nigerian feminist writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has won the US National Critics Book Prize for her novel Americanah. In her book she tells the story of a Nigerian woman who moves to the US to pursue a college education.

In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, she talked about the reason behind her writing the novel, she wrote her story based on her own experiences as an African living in the US, particularly with African Americans.

 "I don't know race in the way an African American knows race… Sometimes it takes an outsider to see something about your own reality that you don't," she said.

 In 2008, her second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, won the UK's Orange Prize and Purple Hibiscus was longlisted for the Booker Prize four years earlier.