Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie named winner of the 2019 Everett M. Rogers Award

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been named the winner of the 2019 Everett M. Rogers Award. The award, named in honor of the late USC Annenberg professor Everett M. Rogers, is presented each year by the Norman Lear Center at the University of Southern California (USC) on behalf of the university’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

Ms. Adichie, who is being honored for “reframing the discourse on race, gender and identity”, will accept the award and speak at the USC Annenberg School in February 2019.