The Best Kind of Political Art

The Best Kind of Political Art

A review of Dream Count: A Novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 416 pages, Knopf (March 2025).When Dream Count was published in March, it had been twelve years since Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie had published a novel. Her last was Americanah in 2013, and before that Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), and Purple Hibiscus (2003). I know because, having read the previous three and loved them, I had been waiting. I would have read Dream Count no matter what, bu…