Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a renowned Nigerian author and supporter of feminism, will soon receive a distinguished honor from Harvard University. On October 6, 2022, Harvard University will give the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal to the honoree, who keeps Nigeria on the map of the world 2022.
The prize is the highest esteemed honor given by Harvard to individuals working in the area of Africa and African studies. Oprah Winfrey, Maya Angelou, Muhammad Ali, Steven Spielberg, Ava Duvernay, and Chinua Achebe are just a few of the people who have received this prize in the past. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Laverne Cox, Agnes Gund, Raymond J. McGuire, Deval Patrick, and Betye Saar are among other recipients of the honor in addition to Adichie.
Those chosen demonstrated "unyielding commitment to pushing the boundaries of representation and creating opportunities for advancement and participation for people who have been too often shut out from the great promise of our times," according to Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., director of the Hutchins Centre at the University. Chimamanda Adichie previously disclosed her chief source of inspiration.
Wole Soyinka, the winner of the Nobel Prize, had received admiration from a mother of one. On her Instagram feed, Adichie posted a snapshot of the literary gurus together. Adichie referred to Soyinka as a "leading light" in her post, describing him as someone she is in awe of and grateful to.
See her complete caption:
"You are a beacon of hope for me:
Your bravery. The ease with which you speak your opinion without hesitation and without needing to apologize.
Your warmth and humor.
Your absolute coolness
The Man Died's urgent, terse poetry and Ake's joy reflect your trust in opportunity, exploration, and advancement.
'The thoughtless ones are neither the complete sum nor the actual face of humanity,' in other words, is true.
I'm grateful. Prof. \sCNA
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a Nigerian author who was born on September 15, 1977, has written novels, short tales, and nonfiction. She was said to as "the most prominent" of a "procession of critically praised young anglophone authors [which] is succeeding in introducing a new generation of readers to African literature," particularly in her second home, the United States, in The Times Literary Supplement.
Purple Hibiscus (2003), Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), Americanah (2013), The Thing Around Your Neck (2009), and the book-length essay We Should All Be Feminists are among Adichie's works. She has also published short stories (2014). Her most recent works include Notes on Grief (2019), Zikora (2020), and Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (2017). (2021). She received a MacArthur Genius Grant in 2008. In 2018, she was awarded the PEN Pinter Prize.
Adichie was the fifth of six children born into an Igbo household in the Nigerian city of Enugu. She was raised in the Enugu State university town of Nsukka. Her father, James Nwoye Adichie (1932-2020) was a professor of statistics at the University of Nigeria when she was a child. Grace Ifeoma, her mother, served as the university's first female registrar from 1942 to 2021. On campus, they resided in a home that had once belonged to renowned author Chinua Achebe. Her paternal and maternal grandparents were among the members of the family who practically lost everything during the Nigerian Civil War. Abba is the ancestral home of her family in the state of Anambra.
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