Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talks about writing her fourth novel, Dream Count, how her mother's passing inspired her to write the book and turning to poetry for inspiration.

A foreign book reviewer has broken silence on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's latest book "Dream Count". She shared what the new book did to her brain.

In her long-awaited return to fiction, the author of "Americanah" presents her intricately-woven novel that explores love, ambition, family expectations, and the forces that shape women's choices.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Dream Count” feels like a homecoming, writes Associated Press reviewer Helen Wieffering.

When her father died, the author of “Americanah” produced a slim work of nonfiction. When her mother died, she poured her grief into a sprawling 416-page novel.

Eight years ago the Nigerian author's reputation took a hit. Now she's back to remind us why she's still a feminist icon

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie says the writer's block she experienced after becoming pregnant with her first child was "terrifying". "It's a really frightening place to be, because writing is the thing that gives me meaning," the acclaimed Nigerian author, 47, tells the BBC's Emma Barnett.

By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Knopf; 416 pages; $32. Fourth Estate; £20. C an you be a good polemicist and a good novelist? To judge by the accolades offered to Chima

In turns, the book shifts its focus to three other women and their dreams. There is Chia’s friend Zikora, an ambitious lawyer who is desperate to be a mother, and Chia’s brazen cousin Omelogor, a banker in Nigeria who has a crisis of confidence upon coming to America.