Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lecture
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Published 2023-10-26
She studied medicine for a year at Nsukka and then left for the US at the age of 19 to continue her education on a different path.
She graduated summa cum laude from Eastern Connecticut State University with a degree in Communication and Political Science.
She has a Master’s Degree in African Studies from Yale University, and a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins University. She was awarded a Hodder fellowship at Princeton University for the 2005-2006 academic year, and a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute of Harvard University for the 2011-2012 academic year. In 2008, she received a MacArthur Fellowship, popularly known as the “genius grant.”
She has received honorary doctorate degrees from Eastern Connecticut State University, Johns Hopkins University, Haverford College, Williams College, the University of Edinburgh, Duke University, Amherst College, Bowdoin College, SOAS University of London, American University, Georgetown University, Yale University, Rhode Island School of Design, Northwestern University, and University of Pennsylvania.
Ms. Adichie’s work has been translated into over thirty languages.
Her first novel, Purple Hibiscus (2003), won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and her second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), won the Orange Prize. Her 2013 novel Americanah won the US National Book Critics Circle Award, and was named one of The New York Times Top Ten Best Books of 2013. A story from her collection, The Thing Around Your Neck, was awarded the O Henry Prize.
She has delivered two landmark TED talks: her 2009 TED Talk The Danger of A Single Story and her 2012 TEDx Euston talk We Should All Be Feminists, which started a worldwide conversation about feminism, and was published as a book in 2014.
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, was published in March 2017.
Her most recent work, Notes On Grief, an essay about losing her father, was published in 2021.
She was named one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2015. In 2017, Fortune Magazine named her one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders. She is a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Ms. Adichie divides her time between the United States and Nigeria, where she leads an annual creative writing workshop.
All Comments (21)
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She's The Pride of Africa! We appreciate you Chimamanda💖💯
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Chimamanda always has a way of getting her audience and listening captivated; she drives her messages forcefully and clearly in a subtle manner.
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There's no better way to spend my time than listennin to such a human marvel👏🏾
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The more I watch her, the more I get inspired.
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Chimamanda's voice is eloquently resounding as it is reassuring
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I can listen to this woman all day, such a phenomenal and inspiring woman!
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I have always looked for opportunity to attend lectures like this
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Am not tire listening to her over and over again.
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Chimamanda is always inspiring and soothing to listen to.
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Listening to you while getting ready for an important meeting today. Let my chi and the chi of Chimamanda protect me this morning 🙏
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Always love listening to Chimamanda ❤
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Listening to Chimamanda is always inspiring n soothing❤.
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Sometimes, we as people are too busy looking down that we forget to look up and see the Stars; to see the light that they are giving us , that , even though in darkness, we may see light. There she is, one of my favorite stars: Chimamanda💜🌟,,, Shining her light on the dark parts of our minds
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I get always captivated and inspired each time I listened to amazingly graceful stories. Lots of motivations, my Chi (my God-Creator) never fails. More grace and God's protections🙏❤
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I never get tired of listening to her
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I love watching chimamanda Ngozi adichie.
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From St. Lucia in the Caribbean i can relate. We were not taught in our mother language patios. English only and when i listen to stories from my elders they were not allowed to speak creole. I am improving on my creole now however i mix it quite a bit at times with the the english. You have really brought that emotional feeling within me and i clearly see what you have said. From now on when i look at my elders converse the ones who never went to school, i realize our colonizers stripped away a part of us our beautiful language.
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Chimanda, you speak so well. You are so captivating . I have made you my role model.
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She is also one the most beautiful woman in the world . Our Catholica names had very little to do with English . It iwa s being dedicated to a saint in the Catholic Church as a Christian identification . That was amazing
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Adichie is a goddess.
