Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been listed by Time magazine as one of the world's 100 most influential people.
Three other Nigerians - Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, President-elect Muhammadu Buhari, and #BringBackOurGirls campaigner Obiageli Ezekwesil - also appear on the list.
Ms Adichie, 37, is hailed by the US magazine as a "creator of characters".
The four Nigerians appear with three other Africans on the annual list.
They include Sudanese aid worker Mustafa Hassan, Liberia's Ebola-fighting doctor Jerry Brown and Tunisia's President Beji Caid Essebsi. Ms Adichie is described (http://time.com/3823296/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-2015-time-100/)in the US 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".
"With her viral TEDxEuston talk (http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/We-should-all-be-feminists-Chim), We Should All Be Feminists, she found her voice as cultural critic," wrote Radhika Jones, a deputy managing editor of Time. (http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/200/media/images/75306000/jpg/_75306515_line976.jpg)Africans on Time's 100 Most Influential PeoplePioneers:
- Mustafa Hassan, Sudanese aid worker - "Truly he is a hero, making the world better one life at a time," David Miliband, International Rescue Committee CEO
Artists:
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigerian author - "Her greatest power is as a creator of characters who struggle profoundly to understand their place in the world," Time's Radhika Jones
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- Muhammadu Buhari, Nigerian president-elect - "A president-to-be who wants to leave a legacy to match the historic conditions of his election," Time's Aryn Baker
- Obiageli Ezekwesili, Nigerian #BringBackOurGirls campaigner - "It would have taken a long time to raise awareness about the girls taken by Boko Haram without her," Ugandan aid worker Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe
- Abubakar Shekau, Nigerian militant leader - "The citizens of Nigeria... know Abubakar Shekau all too well: He is the most violent killer their country has ever seen," retired US General Carter Ham
- Beji Caid Essebsi, Tunisia's president - "It will be up to Essebsi to ensure Tunisia defeats terrorism without compromising the promises of its revolution," NBC's Ayman Mohyeldin
Icons:
- Jerry Brown, Liberian doctor - "He took action and stopped people from dying of Ebola," English actor Idris Elba
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Source: BBC