Kenyan actress, Lupita Nyong’o has reportedly optioned the film rights to the mind-blowing novel ‘Americanah‘ by award winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The reports was confirmed by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie at the Stylist Magazine’s Stylist Book Club Inaugural Session held at Waldorf Hilton in London on May 29, 2014. Adichie said the PEOPLE magazine 2014 Most Beautiful Woman now has the full rights to make a derivative work off her novel. However, it was earlier reported that Oscars winning actress had already been tapped to play lead ‘ Ifemelu’ but with this development, the 12 years a slave actress will either be the producer or a part of the production team. An option is a contractual agreement between a potential film producer and a writer of a novel, short story etc. The agreement details the exclusive rights, including the specified time period and financial obligations, the producer has to advance the essential elements, such as financing and/or talent, towards the creation of a film based on the original novel /screenplay i.e Lupita has reserved the rights for a limited period of time in order to make the film, and she is supposed to pay the author and/or publisher a certain amount of money on those exclusive rights for the agreed period of time. It’s renewable. According to the plot: Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success, she is forced to grapple with what it means to be black for the first time. Quiet, thoughtful Obinze had hoped to join her, but with post-9/11 America closed to him, he instead plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, they reunite in a newly democratic Nigeria, and reignite their passion—for each other and for their homeland. The novel which emerged as one of the New York Times’s Ten Best Books of the Year 2013 has won the following awards: 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, Winner of the The Chicago Tribune 2013 Heartland Prize for Fiction, An NPR “Great Reads” Book, a Washington Post Notable Book, a Seattle Times Best Book, an Entertainment Weekly Top Fiction Book, a Newsday Top 10 Book, and a Goodreads Best of the Year pick.