Chimamanda Only Woman To Make Top 10 In 100 Most Influential Africans List

Multiple award-winning Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been named as one of the 100 Most Influential Africans by the Africa Report.

Adichie is Number 4 on the list, and apart from Aliko Dangote who is number 1, she is the only other Nigerian in the top 10. She is also the only woman

In a series of articles published on their platform, The Africa Report named the top 100 Africans “who control the levers of power across politics, business and the arts: from billionaire barons to unpredictable peacemakers and soft-power superstars”.

The Africa Report said of Adichie that she “continues her stratospheric ascent and is as often seen behind a mic as in print – engaging audiences about racism, sexism and the human condition.”

Adichie has received numerous awards and recognitions, including in 2008, a Macarthur Fellowship, popularly known as the Macarthur Genius Award. She also received fellowships at Princeton University and the Radcliffe Institute of Harvard University.

Her books have been translated into over 30 languages and are used in school curriculums around the world, including Nigeria. They have won numerous prizes, including the Commonwealth Prize for her first novel, “Purple Hibiscus,” the Orange Prize for her second novel, “Half of a Yellow Sun” and the US National Book Critics award for her third novel, “Americanah.”
“Americanah” is now being adapted for a HBO miniseries produced by Lupita Nyong’o and Brad Pitt.

Adichie’s TED talk, “The Danger of a Single Story” is one of the most viewed TED talks of all time. Her other TED talk, “We Should All Be Feminists” started a global conversation about feminism, and was sampled by Beyoncé for her song “Flawless”. It also led to a collaboration with Christian Dior Couture, which launched a limited-edition T-shirt in 2017 inspired by her talk.
In October 2018, she was awarded the PEN Pinter Prize, named in honor of playwright and Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter.

With many of these awards, she has the distinction of being the first Nigerian and in fact, the first African, to receive these recognitions.
Adichie is admired by many global leaders and influencers, including Barack and Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Oprah Winfrey. Barack Obama called her “one of the world’s great contemporary writers”; and Hillary Clinton has written that “she has the rare ability to sum up even the biggest societal problems swiftly and incisively”.

In addition, she has received 14 Honorary Doctorate degrees from leading universities around the world, including from one of her alma maters, Yale University; has delivered keynote addresses at some of the most influential global institutions such as the United Nations General Assembly, and is known for her courageous speaking out against injustice.
Adichie’s influence transcends writing, with the New York Times calling her “the rare novelist to become a public intellectual”.

Also included in the Africa Report’s list are Chief Executive Officer of leading global bank Credit Suisse, Tidjane Thiam (Cote D’Ivoire); Chairman of the largest media group by market capitalization outside the US and China, Koos Bekker (South Africa); and the current Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Abiy Ahmed.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/10/chimamanda-only-woman-to-make-top-10-in-100-most-influential-africans-list/

Okay.

But the only thing I appreciate about her is her intelligence.

I detest her philosophy and ideology.


She uses her talent to hunt for international recognition. She does not prioritize the interest of Africa.


Just as she preaches gender equality, she may one day support LGBTQ.

Igbo amaka,
Nigeria amaka

Ah okay. Congratulations to Dangote though well deserve award.

That is just wow.

She keeps going forward.

Igbo amaka!!!

She's greater than Awolowo and Tinubu

No doubt

I NEED HELP RIGHT NOW

So?

I so Much love this lady......She is a rare gem full of wisdom.

May God enlarge her coast..

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Great! Only that if she needed votes to get there, she wouldn't be in the top 10,000 cos our people don't have time for sensible ventures. Only BBnaija and the rest

Mercy second

Wow.
Folorunso Alakija will not like this.

But money is not everything if not Tinubu and Otedola would have made the list.

Bbh

NaijaRoyalty:
She's greater than Awolowo and Tinubu

No doubt

What are they saying?
What are you saying?

Add Mercy join.

I love her.

She's brilliant!

#RESPECT to this Great woman.

She is a Role model to our upcoming girls that have brain INSIDE thier heads........because some only have coconuts up there!

Incandescent:
I love her.

She's brilliant!

We love her too,
She's beauty with brain!

NwaAmaikpe:




Wow.
Folorunso Alakija will not like this.

But money is not everything.

you really dont have sense. Who told you Alakija is competing with Chimamanda?

oloriLFC:
you really dont have sense. Who told you Alakija is competing with Chimamanda?

Some very funny and posts you cannot comprehended abound here Olori!
That is Nairaland for you!
TRIBALISM reign supreme here.
Shame!

Why so threatened by yoruba people though? Why are you yam reez always looking for yoruba approval and to compete with yoruba people when they don't even give a damn about your opinion

NaijaRoyalty:
She's greater than Awolowo and Tinubu

No doubt

Her social justice warrior personae tires me but her beauty is not unnoticeable.

Blast men and succeed in the west. The only reason she is relevant is because she echos the western anti man narrative supported by league of caustic women and plague of beta males that litter the whole of the fúcked lands they call West
Tueeeh

Stuff

I remember when I first listened to her on ted.com, a speech wherein she addressed the audience about how ignorant they were about Nigeria and Africa just because the media would report on gettos and not developed part of Africa. Loved her then.

Now, she don join bad gang, dey push for feminism...LGBT on the way, probably.

oloriLFC:
you really dont have sense. Who told you Alakija is competing with Chimamanda?

You're responding to mumu tribalist

Help me ask am ooo

StarOnEarth:

What are they saying?
What are you saying?

Assessing people’s view from a distance we met be wrong cos their opinions concerning issues may be the opposite. Her views her life

The "influential list" when converted to naira is how much?

yudeecollections:
Add Mercy join.

hope your being sarcastic

J111333:
The "influential list" when converted to naira is how much?

Nawa to you o