Hollywood actresses, Lupita Nyong’o and Danai Gurira, will be starring in an upcoming adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah. The two actresses also starred together in Black Panther. Lupita had acquired the rights to the novel since 2014 and had originally planned on turning it into a film.
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While Lupita will produce and star in the miniseries, Gurira is coming on board as a writer. Lupita and Gurira are no strangers to collaborating with each other. The two actresses had worked together on an off-Broadway play called ‘Eclipse‘.