Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie get 84 reasons why you no fit ignore her
Ogbonge Nigerian writer and feminist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie get at least 84 international accolades as a 42 year old.
Dem born her on September 15, 1977 for Nigeria. Na Chimamanda be di author of three novels, Purple Hibiscus (2003), Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), and Americanah (2013), and di Thing around Your Neck (2009). Dis na wetin you suppose know about di Nigerian international writer & feminist wey don receive awards and distinctions across di world. Content is not available End of Facebook post, 1 Literary Awards 1. BBC Short Story Competition 2002 joint winner, for 'That Harmattan Morning' 2. O. Henry Prize 2003, for 'The American Embassy' 3. David T. Wong International Short Story Prize 2002/2003 (PEN Center Award), for 'Half of a Yellow Sun' 4. Hurston/Wright Legacy Award 2004 (Best Debut Fiction Category), for Purple Hibiscus 5. Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2005: Best First Book (Africa), for Purple Hibiscus 6. Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2005: Best First Book (overall), for Purple Hibiscus 7. Anisfield-Wolf Book Award 2007 (fiction category), for Half of a Yellow Sun (joint winner with Martha Collins, for Blue Front) 8. PEN 'Beyond Margins' Award 2007, for Half of a Yellow Sun (joint winner with Ernest Hardy for his essay collection Blood Beats, Vol. 1, Harryette Mullen for her poetry anthology, Recyclopedia, and Alberto Ríos for his poetry collection, Theater of Night) 9. Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, for Half of a Yellow Sun 10. 2008 MacArthur Foundation 'genius' grant (along wit 24 oda winners) 11. 2009 International Nonino Prize 12. 2013 Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize (fiction category), for Americanah 13. Winner of di National Book Critics Circle Award 2013 (fiction category), for Americanah 15. Winner of di 'Best of the Best' of the second decade of di Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (formerly di Orange Prize for Fiction), 2015, for Half of a Yellow Sun 16. Mary McCarthy Award, Bard College, USA, 2017 17. Winner of 'Le Grand Prix de l'héroïne Madame Figaro' 2017, for di French translation of Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Chère Ijeawele, ou un manifeste pour une éducation féministe) 18. Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award, 2018 19. PEN Pinter Prize, 2018 Oda Awards 20. Future... Award (Young Person of the Year category), 2008 21. Girls Write Now Awards Groundbreaker honoree, 2015 22. Silverbird Special Achievement Award (joint winner with Desmond Majekodunmi and Alistair Soyode), 2016 23. Harper's Bazaar's Women of di Year Award, 2017 24. Recipient of the Leadership Award during The Women's Center's 32nd Annual Leadership Conference, 2018 25. Global Hope Coalition's Thought Leadership Award, 2018 26. Action Against Hunger Humanitarian Award, 2018 27. Everett M. Rogers Award, 2019 Nominations for Literary Awards 28. Shortlisted for di Caine Prize for African Writing 2002, for 'You in America' 29. Runner-up in di Commonwealth Short Story Competition 2002, for 'Di Tree in Grandma's Garden' 30. Shortlisted for di Orange Prize for Fiction 2004, for Purple Hibiscus 31. Longlisted for di Booker Prize 2004, for Purple Hibiscus 32. Nominated for di YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association) Best Books for Young Adults Award (2004), for Purple Hibiscus 33. Shortlisted for di John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 2004/2005, for Purple Hibiscus 34. Nominated for di 33rd Annual National Book Critics Circle Prize (2006), for Half of a Yellow Sun 35. Shortlisted for di Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2007: Best Book (Africa), for Half of a Yellow Sun 36. Nominated for di British Book Awards 2007, category 'Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year', for Half of a Yellow Sun 37. Nominated for di James Tait Black Memorial prize 2007, for Half of a Yellow Sun 38. Longlisted for di International Impac Dublin Award 2008, for Half of a Yellow Sun 39. Nominated for di Reader's Digest Author of the Year Award 2008 40. Longlisted for di Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award 2009, for The Thing around Your Neck 41. Shortlisted for di John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 2009, for The Thing around Your Neck 42. Shortlisted for di Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2010: Best Book (Africa), for The Thing around Your Neck 43. Nominated for di Dayton Literary Peace Prize 2010, for The Thing around Your Neck (runner-up) 44. Shortlisted for di Baileys Women's Book Prize for Fiction, 2014, for Americanah 45. Nominated for di 2014 Forbes Africa 'Person of the Year' Award 46. Nominated for di 2014 YNaija! Person of the Year Award 47. Shortlisted for di International Impac Dublin Award 2015, for Americanah Nominations for Oda Awards 48. Nominated for di 2011 ThisDay Awards, 'New Champions for an Enduring Culture' category 49. Nominated for di 2014 MTV Africa Music Awards, 'Personality of the Year' category 50. Nominated for di 2015 Forbes Africa Person of the Year Awards 51. Nominated for di 2017 New African Woman Awards, Woman of the Year Oda Distinctions 52. Listed among Di New Yorker's '20 Under 40', 2010 53. Listed among di 'Ten Best Books of 2013', New York Times Book Review, for Americanah 54. Listed among di 'Top Ten Books of 2013', BBC, for Americanah 55. Listed among di '100 Most Influential Africans 2013', New African 56. Listed among di 'Leading Women of 2014' by CNN 57. Listed among di '100 Most Influential People' by Time Magazine, 2015 58. Listed among di '100 Dynamic Women' by Arise Magazine, 2015 59. Included in Vanity Fair's International Best Dressed List, 2016 60. Winner of di 'One Book, One New York Programme', for Americanah, 2017 61. Included in Fortune Magazine's List of 50 World Leaders, 2017 62. Winner of di 'One Maryland, One Book' Programme, for Purple Hibiscus, 2017 63. Contributor to Genius: 100 Visions of di Future, a 3D-printed book celebrating Albert Einstein 64. Listed among di best books of 2017 by NPR Books and Audible, for Dear Ijeawele 65. Selected for 'One Maryland, One Book', for Purple Hibiscus, 2017 66. Featured on PBS's 'Di Great American Read', for Americanah, 2018 67. Included in Barack Obama's recommended summer reading list, for Americanah, 2018 68. Listed among di New York Times "15 remarkable books by women that are shaping di way we read and write fiction in di 21st century", for Americanah, 2018 69. September 2019 British Vogue cover for Forces of Change Honorary Doctorates & Academic Distinctions 70. Honorary doctorate, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, Connecticut, USA, 12 May 2015 71. Barnard Medal of Distinction, New York, USA, 17 May 2016 72. Honorary doctorate, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 18 May 2016 73. Elected as a Foreign Honorary Member into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 12 April 2017 (inducted 7 October 2017) 74. Honorary degree, Haverford College, Pennsylvania, USA, 13 May 2017 75. Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 28 August 2017 76. Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Degree, Duke University, North Carolina, USA, 13 May 2018 77. Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Degree, Amherst College, Massachusetts, USA, 20 May 2018 78. Honorary Doctor of Letters Degree, Bowdoin College, Maine, USA, 26 May 2018 79. Honorary Doctor of Literature (DLit) degree, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK, 27 July 2018 80. Honorary Degree, American University in Washington DC, USA, 11 May 2019 81. Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Degree, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA, May 2019 82. Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts degree, Rhode Island School of Design, USA, 1 June 2019 83. Doctor of Letters, Honoris Causa, Yale University, USA, 10 June 2019 84. Honorary Degree, Northwestern University, USA, 21 June 2019 BBC Pidgin confam all dis accolades from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie official website. Her most recent book, na Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, wey she publish for March 2017. "All women wey dem born dey equal to man. Simple" - Chimamanda Adichie