We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In her long-awaited return to fiction, the author of "Americanah," Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, presents "Dream Count" ...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Dream Count” feels like a homecoming. The Nigerian author’s first work of longform fiction in over a decade reminds us of the sharp wisdom and sturdy empathy that have made ...

Dream Count is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's first novel in a decade. (Author photo credit: Carlos Figueroa via Wikimedia Commons 4.0) Around 15 years ago, TED Talks uploaded a talk by the Nigerian ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s latest novel Dream Count, one of the protagonists, Chiamaka, has a boyfriend who ...

Since her dazzling debut, Purple Hibiscus, announced her as a literary force in 2003, author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has worn many hats — novelist, essayist, cultural critic. Yet each of her new ...

What’s the story about? Dream Count tells the intersecting stories of four African women. The novel recounts the characters’ hopes, dreams and struggles, interweaving flashbacks from their childhood ...

The story begins with what is a not-so-distant memory for many: keeping up with loved ones through Zoom calls during lockdown. Dream Count temporally shifts back and forth as Chiamaka, a Nigerian ...

When Chia is offered a book deal in the US, she thinks it’s for her “light, funny takes on travel”, but it turns out the publisher wants her to go to the Congo to write about violence against women.

It is clear that we live in uncertain times what with the climate crisis, an ongoing genocide, and expansionist warfare. And that’s just the daily news cycle. This note of utter uncertainty ...