Chief Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Odeluwa), born in Nigeria and spends her time partly between the United States and Nigeria.
Profile Summary
• Name: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Year of Birth: 15 September 1977
• State of Origin: Enugu State
• Marital Status: Married
• Spouse : Dr. Ivara Esege
Chimamanda Adichie is one of Nigeria’s finest writer and a globally recognized writer born in Southeast Nigeria.
She grew up on the campus of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where her father was a professor and her mother was the first female Registrar.
Adichie is married to Dr. Ivara and they both have a daughter though she prefers to keep her life very private.
Aside from just writing books, Adichie has bagged several degrees from prominent Universities.
Academic Prowess
•Master’s Degree in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins University
•Master of Arts degree in African History from Yale University
Meanwhile, She was awarded a Hodder fellowship at Princeton University for the 2005-2006 academic year, and a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute of Harvard University for the 2011-2012 academic year. In 2008, she received a MacArthur Fellowship.
Furthermore, Her first novel, Purple Hibiscus published in 2003 won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and her second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun published in 2006 won the Orange Prize.
Her 2013 novel Americanah won the US National Book Critics Circle Award and was named one of The New York Times Top Ten Best Books of 2013.
In 2021, she published her most recent work “Notes on Grief” an essay about losing’s her father.
Amongst other things, Adichie has been delivered two landmark TED talks: her 2009 TED Talk “The Danger of A Single Story” and her 2012 TEDx Euston talk “We Should All Be Feminists,” which started a worldwide conversation about feminism and was published as a book in 2014.
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Honorary Doctorate Degrees
She has received honorary doctorate degrees from different Universities. They Include:
-Eastern Connecticut State University
-Johns Hopkins University
-Haverford College
-Williams College
-University of Edinburgh
-Duke University
-Amherst College
-Bowdoin College
-SOAS University of London
-American University
-Georgetown University
-Yale University
-Rhode Island School of Design
-Northwestern University
-University of Pennsylvania
-Skidmore College
-University of Johannesburg.
Recently, the writer was conferred with a chieftaincy title “Odeluwa” meaning one who writes for the world. The even took place in her hometown in Abba, Anambra State.
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