Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been selected as
one of TIME magazine’s 2015 100 Most
Influential People in the World. Her selection was
based on her unique position as a literary
success and an influential cultural voice.
Adichie studied political science at Eastern
Connecticut State University, and has a Masters
degree in writing from Johns Hopkins University
and a Masters degree in African Studies from
Yale.
She has held fellowships at Princeton-
where she taught a writing course-and Harvard.
She is the first Nigerian recipient of numerous
prestigious literary awards including the Orange
prize, the National Book Critics Circle award, the
Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize and the Nonino
Prize for fiction. She has, most recently, been
shortlisted for the Dublin IMPAC prize, the most
lucrative literary award in the world.
In addition, she was listed as one of the top
twenty fiction writers under the age of forty by
The New Yorker magazine.
She has been awarded a Macarthur Fellowship,
popularly known as the Macarthur ‘Genius’
Award.
Adichie has also been honoured by the Nigerian
Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the ‘Global
Ambassador’ award.
Her first TED talk, THE DANGER OF A SINGLE
STORY, is one of the most-watched TED talks
and is a staple of school courses all over the
world. Her second TED talk, WE SHOULD ALL BE
FEMINISTS, has been a major influence in the
ongoing worldwide resurgence of feminism, and
inspired Beyonce’s popular anthem FLAWLESS.
Her books have been translated into more than
thirty languages and have sold over a million
copies worldwide. The film adaptation of her
most recent novel AMERICANAH will be co-
produced by Brad Pitt and Lupita Nyong’o.
She lives in Lagos, where she organizes an
annual creative writing workshop.
Other Nigerians on the TIME 100 list are activist
Obiageli Ezekwesili, president-elect Muhammadu
Buhari and artist Chris Ofili.
Congratulations!!!!
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