Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Receives 2021 Hurston/Wright Foundation’s North Star Award Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been awarded the 2021 Hurston/Wright North Star Award. It is the foundation's highest honor and recipients are individuals whose writing and/or service to the Writing Community...
Notice to The General Public It has come to our attention that an article "Reflections on the man Nnamdi Kanu" is being falsely attributed to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Kindly note that this article was not...
IT IS OBSCENE: A TRUE REFLECTION IN THREE PARTS PART ONE When you are a public figure, people will write and say false things about you. It comes with the territory. Many of those things you brush aside. Many...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Receives Africa Freedom Prize 2020 Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche has been awarded The Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom “Africa Freedom Prize 2020”. “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the long-lost, undogmatic voice of liberal feminism in the 21st...
Half of A Yellow Sun wins The Women’s Prize Winner of Winners Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been awarded the Women’s Prize for Fiction ‘Winner of Winners’ for her novel Half of a Yellow Sun. The public chose Chimamanda’s novel over a stellar-line...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Receives 2020 International Hermann Hesse Prize Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and her translator Judith Schwaab will receive the International Hermann Hesse Prize 2020. This was announced by the board of the Calw Hermann Hesse Foundation. The prize...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Delivers University of Pennysylvania Commencement Address and Receives Honorary Degree On Monday, May 18th, 2020, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie delivered the address at the University of Pennsylvania’s 264th Commencement and was awarded an honorary degree. She is the first Black woman...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Receives Woman of The Decade Award from This Day Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a Woman of The Decade Award from ThisDay Nigeria. She was selected as the editor’s choice and the award was presented to her by the iconic...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Receives first Belle van Zuylen Ring On January 11th, 2020, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received the first Belle van Zuylen Ring, an honorary prize set by the ILFU International Literature Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands. She was honored with...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie named on This Day’s List of 20 Women Who Will Shape Events in Nigeria in 2020 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was named on This Day’s list of 20 Women Who Will Shape Events in Nigeria in 2020. Others on the list include Deputy Secretary-General of the United...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is awarded The 2019 BookCity Milano Prize Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has received the 2019 BookCity Milano Prize at The BookCity Milano Prize in Italy. The prize aims to present the work of a writer who, through his/her...
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE NAMED ON OOOM MAGAZINE’S WORLD’S MOST INSPIRING PEOPLE IN 2019 Chimamanda Adichie has been named on OOOM Magazine's list of the World’s Most Inspiring People in 2019. Compiled by an international jury, the annual list features inspiring individuals who have...
HALF OF A YELLOW SUN NAMED IN BBC’S LIST OF 100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD Half of A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie has been named in the BBC's list of "100 Novels That Shaped Our World." The list covers English language novels written over...
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE IS AWARDED THE UN FOUNDATION GLOBAL LEADERSHIP AWARD Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been awarded the prestigious UN Foundation Global Leadership Award by the United Nations Foundation, making her the youngest African and only Nigerian to have received the...
AMERICANAH named on TIME’s list of the best fiction books of the decade Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's third novel, Americanah (2013), has been named by TIME Magazine as one of the ten best fiction books published during the 2010s.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is awarded the Kasseler Burgerpreis (“Prism of Reason”) by the citizens of Kassel, Germany Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has received the 2019 Kassel Citizens’ " Prism of Reason" Award for “her vision of humanistic diversity”. According to the organizers, this prize is awarded to persons...