Multiple award-winning Nigerian writer, Chimamanda
Ngozi Adichie, has been named as one of the 100 Most Influential People
of African decent by the Africa Report.
Adichie, the only woman on the list, is fourth, while Aliko Dangote
is number one. She is followed on the list by Trevor Noah, South-African
born television personality and comedian who is one of the leading talk
show hosts in the United States, having taken over from Jon Stewart on
the award-winning Daily Show.
In a series of articles published on their platform, The Africa
Report named the top Africans, “who control the levers of power across
politics, business and the arts: from billionaire barons to
unpredictable peacemakers and soft-power superstars.”
The Africa Report said Adichie, “continues her stratospheric ascent
and is as often seen behind a mic as in print these days – engaging
audiences about racism, sexism and the human condition.”
She has received numerous awards and recognitions, including in 2008,
a Macarthur Fellowship, popularly known as the Macarthur Genius Award.
She also received fellowships at Princeton University and the Radcliffe
Institute of Harvard University.
Her books have been translated into over 30 languages and are used in
school curriculums around the world, including Nigeria. She has won
numerous prizes, including the Commonwealth Prize for her first novel,
“Purple Hibiscus.” Her second novel, “Half of a Yellow Sun” was awarded
the Orange Prize for Fiction (subsequently renamed the Baileys’ Prize),
which is the world’s top award for female writers.
In October 2018, she was awarded the PEN Pinter Prize, named in honor of playwright and Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter.
With many of these awards, including the Orange Prize, the Macarthur
Fellowship, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the PEN Pinter
Prize, she has the distinction of being the first Nigerian and in fact,
the first African, to receive these recognitions.
Many global leaders and influencers, including Barack and Michelle
Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Oprah Winfrey, admire Adichie. Barack Obama
called her, “one of the world’s great contemporary writers,” and Hillary
Clinton has written, “she has the rare ability to sum up even the
biggest societal problems swiftly and incisively, and in the next
breath, offer a solution.”
She has received 14 Honorary Doctorate degrees from leading
universities around the world, including from one of her alma mater,
Yale University; has spoken at some of the most influential global
institutions such as the United Nations General Assembly, and is known
for her courageous speaking out against injustice. Adichie’s influence
transcends writing, with the New York Times calling her, “the rare
novelist to become a public intellectual.”
She is also widely seen as a style icon, has been featured on covers
and features in numerous top global fashion and style publications, and
was included in Vanity Fair’s International Best Dressed List in 2016.
Later that year, she was named as the face of British beauty brand Boots
No7. In May 2017, the author launched her own project, “Wear Nigerian,”
to promote Nigerian brands and designers on the global stage.
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