Are women allowed their own dreams, wonders author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

'I'm interested in how much of a woman's dream is really hers, and how much is what society has told her to dream about,' says Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Photo: AFP

Twelve years after her last novel, best-selling Nigerian author and feminist icon Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is making a highly anticipated return with Dream Count.

The story recounts the intertwined fates of four women from Nigeria who emigrate to the United States and then find out their lives do not work out as planned.