Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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FILE- In this Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2006, Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie autographs copies of her novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, after a reading at Harvard Bookstore in Cambridge, Mass. Nigerian censors are effectively banning the film “Half of a Yellow Sun” and will not even say why, the Nigerian-British producers told The Associated Press Thursday amid suspicions that censors fear it could rouse tribal rivalries. The National Film and Video Censor Board insisted it has not banned the movie but delayed its registration over “some unresolved issues which have to be sorted out.” The movie’s Nigeria premiere was set for last Friday. Invitations had been sent out and the film was to play in every cinema in the country. On Thursday, the board told the distributors that the film had not yet passed the registration process. “No the film hasn’t been banned but we can’t show it, which technically is a ban,” Biyi Bandele said in a telephone interview from his home in London, where the movie placed among the 10 most popular at cinemas over the Easter weekend. It stars Oscar nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor and Thandie Newton and is an adaptation of the book by prize-winning novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. (AP Photo/JB Reed, file)