Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie will read from her works on April 7 at 6:00 p.m. in Devlin Hall, room 008, at an event sponsored by African and African Diaspora Studies Program. Her first novel, Purple Hibiscus, won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Her novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, received the 2007 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. Her latest work is The Thing Around Your Neck.