Nigerian-born and US-based author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has been listed as one of Time Magazine's "100 Most Influential People".
Ms Adichie, 37, was hailed by the US magazine as a "creator of characters", as her essay ‘We Should All Be Feminists’, was even sampled by Beyoncé and copied onto T-shirts.
Over the years she's written novels, poetry and numerous short stories - and now her new book, Dream Count, marks a highly anticipated return to fiction after more than a decade away.
Ms Adichie is described by the magazine as "rare novelist who in the space of a year finds her words sampled by Beyonce, optioned by Lupita Nyong'o and honoured with the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction".
Radhika Jones, a deputy managing editor of Time, wrote; "With her viral TEDxEuston talk, We Should All Be Feminists, she found her voice as cultural critic."
Three other Nigerians - Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, President-elect Muhammadu Buhari, and #BringBackOurGirls campaigner Obiageli Ezekwesil - also appear on the list. Theh appear with three other Africans on the annual list who include Sudanese aid worker Mustafa Hassan, Liberia's Ebola-fighting doctor Jerry Brown and Tunisia's President Beji Caid Essebsi.
