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29-year old Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie just won Britain’s Orange Prize for her novel Half of a Yellow Sun. Rina Palta interviewed Adichie for Mother Jones last October; she also gave the novel a big thumbs up—”a great read… without the oppressive symbolism or exoticism common to novels by young authors from so-called third world countries.”