Award-winning Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is out with a new piece of literary brilliance titled “DEAR IJEAWELE, OR A FEMINIST MANIFESTO IN FIFTEEN SUGGESTIONS”. The letter-styled piece, is in response to her friend Ijeawele's question about how to raise her newborn daughter Chizalum to become a feminist. Adichie starts by sharing her two 'feminist tools' for responding to situations - one's…
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Winning! Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie awarded Barnard College’s highest honour
Just as we were still reveling in the fact that Nigerian celebrated author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was awarded an honorary degree by John's Hopkins University, we've also learnt that she received another groundbreaking award. On the 17th of May during Barnard College’s 124th Commencement in New York city, she was awarded the 2016 Barnard Medal of Distinction,…
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie awarded an Honorary Degree by Johns Hopkins University
Nigerian award winning novelist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was on wednesday 18th May, awarded an honorary degree by the Johns Hopkins University. During the school's universitywide 2016 commencement which held at Royal Farms Arena, downtown Baltimore, the honorary degree was conferred on her, alongside other 8 recipients. Nobel prize winner and Neuroscientist, Dr. Richard Axel; Philantropist and Maryland's first woman to become…
