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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Named Harvard’s Class Day Speaker by MissBorn(f): 5:31am On Apr 20, 2018
Nigerian-born writer, compelling storyteller, and influential cultural critic, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been selected as Harvard College’s Class Day speaker.

Award-winning author to address graduating seniors on May 23.

Acclaimed author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been selected by the Harvard College Class of 2018 to address the graduating seniors as part of the annual Class Day celebration on May 23, the day before Harvard’s 367th Commencement.

“We are honored to welcome Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie as our Class Day speaker,” said First Marshal Berkeley Brown ’18, co-chair of the speaker selection committee.

“Her eloquence and perspective as a writer and public speaker have inspired audiences to look beyond stereotypes and social norms to recognize our common humanity.”

A Nigerian-born writer whose work has been translated into more than 30 languages, Adichie is the author of the novels “Purple Hibiscus,” which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; “Half of a Yellow Sun,” which won the Orange Prize; and “Americanah,” a 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award winner, which she finalized during a fellowship year at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Her most recent book, “Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions,” was published in March 2017.

A compelling storyteller and influential cultural critic, Adichie has delivered two landmark TED talks: “ The Danger of a Single Story” in 2009, and her 2012 TEDxEuston talk “ We Should All Be Feminists,” which started a worldwide conversation about feminism and was published as a book in 2014.

“In her captivating TED talks, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie urges us to better understand one another’s stories and to plan for ‘a world of happier men and happier women who are truer to themselves.’

This is a powerful message for our class to hear as we reflect on our time at Harvard and prepare to write the next chapter of our stories,” said Jerry Nelluvelil, co-chair of the speaker selection committee.

Adichie is also the co-founder of Farafina Trust, a Nigerian nonprofit that promotes reading, writing, social introspection, and engagement with society through the literary arts.

The Harvard College Senior Class Committee has invited a guest speaker for Class Day since 1968. Prior to that, the honor was given to University affiliates, such as deans, faculty, or classmates.

The first invited guest was Martin Luther King Jr., who accepted the invitation shortly before his assassination. His widow, Coretta Scott King, delivered the speech in his absence and also became the first woman to give a Class Day address at Harvard. Since that time, speakers have spanned fields including politics, social activism, journalism, film, comedy, and more.

In addition to Adichie’s address, Class Day includes award presentations and student orations. All of the events will take place in Tercentenary Theatre in Harvard Yard beginning at 2 p.m. and will be streamed live online.

Source : https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/04/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-named-harvards-class-day-speaker/

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Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Named Harvard’s Class Day Speaker by MissBorn(f): 5:32am On Apr 20, 2018
Chimamanda Adichie, grin
Best writer ever!

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Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Named Harvard’s Class Day Speaker by Ikem11(m): 7:18am On Apr 20, 2018
Nwatakịrị a dịkwa ọkụ o. Ada Igbo ji eme ọnụ.

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Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Named Harvard’s Class Day Speaker by Donpresh95(m): 7:18am On Apr 20, 2018
Igbo Amaka.

PEOPLE from upper upper and their scam Laurette right now

spotted
Ejiod:

I guess this is a joke

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Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Named Harvard’s Class Day Speaker by Riversides2003(m): 7:18am On Apr 20, 2018
Someone should tell the dullard, the vegetable looking thing we have as a president, Nigerian youth from North to South,East to West are hard working people.

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Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Named Harvard’s Class Day Speaker by NonFarmPayrol: 7:19am On Apr 20, 2018
cooltight
Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Named Harvard’s Class Day Speaker by manforgu: 7:20am On Apr 20, 2018
Onye Igbo

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Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Named Harvard’s Class Day Speaker by ClintonEmex: 7:20am On Apr 20, 2018
This girl and her likes keeps on making us proud in the diaspora, while Buhari the dullard brings shame to the nation he's ruling.

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Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Named Harvard’s Class Day Speaker by Ejiod(m): 7:20am On Apr 20, 2018
MissBorn:
Chimamanda Adichie, grin
Best writer ever!
I guess this is a joke

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Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Named Harvard’s Class Day Speaker by baronchuks(m): 7:21am On Apr 20, 2018
This is real brain and beauty unlike all these lazy unreasonable slay queens and mamas with nothing to offer than their stinking pussy

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Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Named Harvard’s Class Day Speaker by Adelaide2: 7:23am On Apr 20, 2018
Oya, Afonja, thou shalt kill thineself today. grin grin grin grin grin

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Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Named Harvard’s Class Day Speaker by KidsNEXTdoor: 7:23am On Apr 20, 2018
Another lazy Nigerian youth

Steals the show abroad undecided

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Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Named Harvard’s Class Day Speaker by IamGoke(m): 7:25am On Apr 20, 2018
Donpresh95:
Igbo Amaka.

PEOPLE from upper upper and their scam Laurette right now

spotted
Igbo Amaka.


Ur pains are for eternity!!!!! Because nothing you can do about that....

This should enlighten you....

https://googleweblight.com/i?u=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/07/wole-soyinka-candidates-oxford-professor-of-poetry&grqid=mHkMmHis&hl=en-NG

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Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Named Harvard’s Class Day Speaker by Hybrid606: 7:25am On Apr 20, 2018
I love that lady so much! Keep it up chimamanda adochie

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Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Named Harvard’s Class Day Speaker by hopilo: 7:26am On Apr 20, 2018
Lazy and uneducated youth according to PMB

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Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Named Harvard’s Class Day Speaker by Donpresh95(m): 7:27am On Apr 20, 2018
Riversides2003:
Someone should tell the dullard, the vegetable looking thing we have as a president, Nigerian youth from North to South,East to West are hard working people.

Remove North, they are leach

IamGoke:


Ur pains are for eternity!!!!! Because nothing you can do about that....


Am not Awolowo who ended his painment with rat poison

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Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Named Harvard’s Class Day Speaker by calculator123(m): 7:33am On Apr 20, 2018
Making us proud...
Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Named Harvard’s Class Day Speaker by ALLU: 7:33am On Apr 20, 2018
Thank God she didn't allow the fact that she got sexually assaulted at 17 by an idiot stop her.
Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Named Harvard’s Class Day Speaker by Achillesdam500(m): 7:34am On Apr 20, 2018
Donpresh95:
Igbo Amaka.

PEOPLE from upper upper and their scam Laurette right now

spotted

If she had wailed her life celebrating tribalism,she wouldn't be near where she is no
Get a life

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Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Named Harvard’s Class Day Speaker by Donpresh95(m): 7:36am On Apr 20, 2018
Achillesdam500:

If she had wailed her life celebrating tribalism,she wouldn't be near where she is no
Get a life

Painment. did I call any region?

You are suffering from a disease called "Guilty conscience"

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Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Named Harvard’s Class Day Speaker by Achillesdam500(m): 7:37am On Apr 20, 2018
Donpresh95:


Painment. did I call any region?
Wasn't your writing symbolic to a tribal uproar?

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Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Named Harvard’s Class Day Speaker by Nobody: 7:38am On Apr 20, 2018
This lady is making us proud unlike all the slay queens that disgraces themselves every time.

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Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Named Harvard’s Class Day Speaker by Nobody: 7:38am On Apr 20, 2018
Croixxx1781:
Mtn is giving there customer free browsing & free call to all network don't miss this have done mine.

You can only Subscribe once in a sim


Lazy Youth

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Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Named Harvard’s Class Day Speaker by Donpresh95(m): 7:40am On Apr 20, 2018
Achillesdam500:

Wasn't your writing symbolic to a tribal uproar?

It is ur brain that told you that one. This is why people fail exam, you write what you think not what you were taught.over sabi
Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Named Harvard’s Class Day Speaker by BlackPantherxXx: 7:40am On Apr 20, 2018
Donpresh95:
Igbo Amaka.

PEOPLE from upper upper and their scam Laurette right now

spotted

Keep wasting your time celebrating Chimamanda and abusing Yorubas on a website owned by a Yoruba.

Keep enriching the Yoruba while making your miserable self poorer. I am sure Chimamanda has given you $1 for your rants

PATHETIC. You need prayers

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Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Named Harvard’s Class Day Speaker by IamGoke(m): 7:43am On Apr 20, 2018
Donpresh95:


Am not Awolowo who ended his painment with rat poison

Better than Ojukwu that ran away and left his biafrans to die of hunger and made you guys practice cannibalism...
Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Named Harvard’s Class Day Speaker by Donpresh95(m): 7:43am On Apr 20, 2018
She is better than That white hair scammer that took title meant for Chinua Achebe. Ojukwu is better than Afonja who couldn't stand and fight against injustice but rather went ahead to sell Illorin and Kwara

IamGoke:


Better than Ojukwu that ran away and left his biafrans to die of hunger and made you guys practice cannibalism...



Thank God you have finally noticed that without Igbos your condition would have been far more terrible than Somalia.


BlackPantherxXx:


Keep wasting your time celebrating Chimamanda and abusing Yorubas on a website owned by a Yoruba.

Keep enriching the Yoruba while making your miserable self poorer. I am sure Chimamanda has given you $1 for your rants

PATHETIC. You need prayers

Your Oga Tinibu is the One Who is derailed not me

Achillesdam500:

Reply him no more bro
He's obviously derailed
These kinda people's stupidity are always a hard nut to crack


Lol am not a jobless youth like you



Achillesdam500:

Since you want to pick up a fight with someone this morning,I implore you not to tread a dangerous path.
Instead I'd just keep mute and allow you to display your glittering collosal idiocy

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Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Named Harvard’s Class Day Speaker by IamGoke(m): 7:44am On Apr 20, 2018
Donpresh95:


It is ur brain that told you that one. This is why people fail exam, you write what you think not what you were taught.over sabi

This your statement shows you are not even a student of literature!!!
Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Named Harvard’s Class Day Speaker by Achillesdam500(m): 7:45am On Apr 20, 2018
Donpresh95:


It is ur brain that told you that one. This is why people fail exam, you write what you think not what you were taught.over sabi
Since you want to pick up a fight with someone this morning,I implore you not to tread a dangerous path.
Instead I'd just keep mute and allow you to display your glittering collosal idiocy
Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Named Harvard’s Class Day Speaker by Achillesdam500(m): 7:47am On Apr 20, 2018
IamGoke:


This your statement shows you are not even a student of literature!!!
Reply him no more bro
He's obviously derailed
These kinda people's stupidity are always a hard nut to crack

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Re: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Named Harvard’s Class Day Speaker by pastorcyrus(m): 7:48am On Apr 20, 2018
MissBorn:
Nigerian-born writer, compelling storyteller, and influential cultural critic, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been selected as Harvard College’s Class Day speaker.

Award-winning author to address graduating seniors on May 23.

Acclaimed author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been selected by the Harvard College Class of 2018 to address the graduating seniors as part of the annual Class Day celebration on May 23, the day before Harvard’s 367th Commencement.

“We are honored to welcome Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie as our Class Day speaker,” said First Marshal Berkeley Brown ’18, co-chair of the speaker selection committee.

“Her eloquence and perspective as a writer and public speaker have inspired audiences to look beyond stereotypes and social norms to recognize our common humanity.”

A Nigerian-born writer whose work has been translated into more than 30 languages, Adichie is the author of the novels “Purple Hibiscus,” which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; “Half of a Yellow Sun,” which won the Orange Prize; and “Americanah,” a 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award winner, which she finalized during a fellowship year at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Her most recent book, “Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions,” was published in March 2017.

A compelling storyteller and influential cultural critic, Adichie has delivered two landmark TED talks: “ The Danger of a Single Story” in 2009, and her 2012 TEDxEuston talk “ We Should All Be Feminists,” which started a worldwide conversation about feminism and was published as a book in 2014.

“In her captivating TED talks, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie urges us to better understand one another’s stories and to plan for ‘a world of happier men and happier women who are truer to themselves.’

This is a powerful message for our class to hear as we reflect on our time at Harvard and prepare to write the next chapter of our stories,” said Jerry Nelluvelil, co-chair of the speaker selection committee.

Adichie is also the co-founder of Farafina Trust, a Nigerian nonprofit that promotes reading, writing, social introspection, and engagement with society through the literary arts.

The Harvard College Senior Class Committee has invited a guest speaker for Class Day since 1968. Prior to that, the honor was given to University affiliates, such as deans, faculty, or classmates.

The first invited guest was Martin Luther King Jr., who accepted the invitation shortly before his assassination. His widow, Coretta Scott King, delivered the speech in his absence and also became the first woman to give a Class Day address at Harvard. Since that time, speakers have spanned fields including politics, social activism, journalism, film, comedy, and more.

In addition to Adichie’s address, Class Day includes award presentations and student orations. All of the events will take place in Tercentenary Theatre in Harvard Yard beginning at 2 p.m. and will be streamed live online.

Source : https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/04/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-named-harvards-class-day-speaker/
Very much distinguished from what a normal African lady use to be.So proud of this lady in all ramification not those ones that displays their stupidity and waywardness on social media on daily basis

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