Chimamanda Adiche: Africa’s most awarded Author.

Chimamanda Adichie is arguably Africa’s most awarded author. In 2020, she won the Women’s Prize for Fiction ‘Winner of Winners’ for her novel Half of a Yellow Sun.

She has received 16 honorary doctorate degrees from some of the world’s most prominent universities including Yale.

In 2019, she became the first Nigerian and youngest African to win the UN Foundations Global Leadership Award.

Former winners include U.S. Presidents, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, Kofi Annan.