CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE TO BE AWARDED AN HONORARY DOCTORATE BY JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY



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The author of widely acclaimed novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has recently been named as one the distinguished achievers to be awarded honorary degrees, this year, by the Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, United States. The honorary degrees will be conferred at the university’s commencement ceremony on the 18th of May, 2016.
Adichie will be awarded alongside seven other recognized individuals, visionaries who have made a mark in various fields. They include groundbreaking filmmaker Spike Lee, the founding director of the Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health, Laurie Zabin, Nobel Prize winner, Richard Axel, amongst others.
Ronald J. Daniels, President of the Johns Hopkins University, describes the group as people who have challenged the status quo and changed the world for the better. They have made a lasting impact on the arts, public health, the law, neuroscience and the resilience of communities here in Baltimore and across the globe.”
This is a very well deserved honour for Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. As one of the world’s leading feminist and an insightful cultural critic, she has become quite influential on the global stage over the years, continually gaining recognition. The author who earned a Master’s degree from Johns Hopkins’ Writing Seminars in 2003, is no stranger to awards and has amassed quite a number already. Her novel, Americanah, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 2013. In 2008, she won a MacArthur Foundation genius grant.
A year ago, Adichie was listed among Time’s 100 most influential people. Last November, she received the award for the ‘Best of The Best’ female fiction writer for the last decade by the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and also made the list of 100 most influential Africans by the New African Magazine. And in January 2016, she made Ventures Africa’s list of 15 African Creatives To Watch Out For this year


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Ahdont mind which part of naija u from,so far u make us proud

we are proud of you CHIAMAMANDA TOLU ASIYA ADICHIE

dey all mkin us proud..... i need to work hard to win awards too... tired of winning best fu*ker

Nice one

Chimamanda!!!!

An award for a model to others. Way to go.

Lalasticlala

well deserved

Chai Nwa baby

ADICHIE has done so well for herself........ Kudos to her,
One question I wud have love to ask her tho, why did she end kainene character..... Why not Olanna

That's good

She's amazing the first time I heard her speak : "when we reject a single story when we realize there is never a story about any place we regain a kind of paradise ". She's so eloquent !!!


If only I can commute my brain with hers lmao

Igbos and Nigerians are doing well

Well deserved.
Gifted and beautiful Anambra girl.

I love dis lady, send me dis kind woman na Baba God

Yoruba people making us proud around all over the whole while world.

Congratulations to a distinguish daughter of the Yoruba race

ok

Impressive

That's one qty institution

Jesus, this lady is extremely beautiful, just like my Omotayor123.







Tayor, you are indeed beautiful. Love your dp

congratulations

Keneking:
Igbos and Nigerians are doing well

Nigerians? yes...Igbos? maybe, but yoruba are doing better

John Hopkins University, please come and give me honorary doctorate too, I have done enough work on the Bible to earn a Phd, please come and check my work/threads on Nairaland for confirmation.

Very nice

ok

2undexy:




Nigerians? yes...Igbos? maybe but yoruba are doing better

All I see with this comment is thunder looming

WELL DESERVED!!!!
CONGRATS TO HER, I REALLY WONDER WHEN SOME OF OUR NIGERIAN LADIES WOULD LOVE TO HER SOMEONE LIKE HER AS A ROLE MODEL, BUT NO!

You well so

EgusiSoup:
Yoruba people making us proud around all over the whole while world.

Congratulations to a distinguish daughter of the Yoruba race

Lemme drink my garri with this akara of low quality finish b4 I come back to comment. Book space.

Nice 1 Chi

Seems she is getting this award mainly due to her role in feminism, and not the writing stuff. None of her books has yet to win the Booker Prize.