7th October 2024, NewsOrient, Books, Arts, Culture, News

Nigeria and Nigerians all over the world held their heads high as one of their daughters, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, yesterday October 6, 2024, stepped out to receive Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Medal, the highest honour given by Harvard in the field of African and African American studies.

The award ceremony took place at the Sanders Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Adichie was presented the award by Poet Laureate Tracy K.

Chimamanda, a writer of world repute, is the first Nigerian woman to receive this award.

Born on 15 September 1977 in Enugu, Nigeria, a brief report on her biography said “Chimamanda is the fifth of six children to Igbo parents, Grace Ifeoma and James Nwoye Adichie.”

The report added: “while her family’s ancestral hometown is Abba, in Anambra State, Chimamanda grew up in Nsukka, in the house formerly occupied by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe.”

NewsOrient reports that Chimamanda, author of many global prize winning fictional titles, has emerged one of the most influential contemporary young writers of today.

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