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Nigerian author the first woman to be featured on the cover of PORT magazine

Chimamanda continues to break boundaries and refuses to be bound by her gender as she becomes first woman to be featured on gentleman's magazine.

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The cover story for the biannual style magazine was written by Catherine Lacey, and photos were taken by Mamadi Doumbouya.

The new issue, PORT’s 22nd, will be out on newsstands in mid-April.

Talking about putting a woman on the cover for the first time ever, editor Dan Crowe says:

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In the issue, Chimamanda talks about her extraordinary books, the complexity of recent gender movements and her next big project.

Speaking about choosing Chimamanda, the magazine wrote, 'The writer  is one of the . The author of Half of a Yellow Sun, Purple Hibiscus and Americanah – as well as of one of the most viewed Ted talks in the organisation's history, that was featured in a Beyoncé song – Adichie transcends the barriers between literature, art and music.'

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