Chimamanda Adichie Receives Chieftaincy Title

Renowned writer and novelist Chimamanda Adichie has been conferred with a chieftaincy title in her home-town, Abba in Anambra State.

The ” Purple Hibiscus” writer is from Anambra State, and on Friday, December 30, she was honoured with the title “Odeluwa Abba,” which means she writes for the world.

The Governor of Anambra State, Charles Soludo, amongst other dignitaries was present at the ceremony.

Announcing the good news was a Facebook user, Uche Nworah, who shared photos from the ceremony and wrote, “Award-winning novelist, Chimamanda Adichie, was on Friday honour by her native Abba home-town, Njikoka LGA, Anambra State, with the chieftaincy title of “odelwa”, she said.

Adichie is known for her fiction, nonfiction, and short story writing, among which are, “Purple Hibiscus” (2003), “Half of a Yellow Sun” (2006), and “Americanah” (2013), the short story collection “The Thing Around Your Neck” (2009), and the book-length essay “We Should All Be Feminists” (2014).

Her most recent books are “Dear Ijeawele”, or “A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions” (2017), “ Zikora” (2020) among many others.

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She was referred to in The Times Literary Supplement as “the most prominent” of a “procession of critically acclaimed young anglophone authors [that] is succeeding in introducing a new generation of readers to African literature,”, particularly in her second country, the United States.

Chimamanda, is inarguably one of the most academically decorated persons in Nigeria, earlier in the year, she earned her 16th honorary doctorate from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium in April.

The renowned author also boasts of doctorate degrees from several reputable institutions including Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Edinburgh, Duke University, Georgetown University, and Johns Hopkins University.

Congratulations, Adichie, from all of us at Prime Business Africa.

Below are some Pictures from the Events