Was a guest on Funmi Iyanda's television programme, "New Dawn", today to discuss sundry matters. Funmi's gotten more than her fair share of hate from the psychos that infiltrate the virtual world but she gave great suggestions off-screen as to handling this strange band.

It's Funmilola's birthday today, Friday the 27th, and I wish my lovely friend much more of the best life has to give.

Then met with the Orange Prize winner, Chimamanda Adichie, after the recording and I was star-struck. It had been a while between meetings, and for someone so young, she's achieved plenty. She's a great example of the rewards of industry.

Nigeria's Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie won Britain's Orange Prize for fiction by women, becoming the first African to take the award in its 12-year history, organizers said Wednesday.

Adichie, 29, also the youngest author to have won the prize, was awarded for novel "Half of a Yellow Sun," set during the Nigeria-Biafra conflict of the 1960s.

She beat out finalists including India's Kiran Desai and American writer Anne Tyler for the $60,000, awarded for a novel by a woman published in English. "Yellow Sun" was a finalist earlier this year for the National Book Critics Circle fiction prize.

Adichie had previously been a finalist for her debut novel, "Purple Hibiscus," in 2004.

The award's full title is the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction after its sponsor, telecommunications company Orange.

A shortlist for 2007 included writers from five countries, from Pulitzer winner Tyler and Booker Prize winner Desai to first-time British novelist Jane Harris.