Award-winning Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has received the highest honour of Harvard university, the W.E.B Du Bois Medal.
The Nigerian author, alongside six other honourees received the medal at a ceremony on Thursday.
The W. E. B. Du Bois Medal is Harvard’s highest honour in the field of African and African American studies awarded to individuals in the United States and across the globe in recognition of their contributions to African and African American culture and the life of the mind.
Other recipients include Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Laverne Cox, Agnes Guns, Raymond J McGuire, Deval Patrick and Betye Saar.
Dubois was the first African-American to earn a Harvard PhD, in 1895. Past recipients of the medal include scholars, artists, writers, journalists, philanthropists, and public servants.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian writer whose works include novels, short stories and nonfiction.
She was described in The Times Literary Supplement as “the most prominent” of a “procession of critically acclaimed young anglophone authors which is succeeding in attracting a new generation of readers to African literature”, particularly in her second home, the United States.
In 2008, she was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant and has also been a recipient of the PEN Pinter Prize in 2018.
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