Describing Obi as her ‘big brother’, Chimamanda in a Facebook tribute to Obi, who recently clocked 60, also wrote: “Thank you for honouring our parents when they were here – your many long visits in Abba, regaling them with your stories, both of them amused, Mummy calling you her ‘first son,’ Daddy chuckling from time to time.
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“Woke” is derived from African American Vernacular English to describe the first waking to social consciousness. In Nigeria, it is vernacularised as Soro Soke – speak up! Leftist academics, journalists, mass media talking heads, activists and other potential resistors against oppression are all wokerist combatants.
Obi made this call in his message to mark the International Women’s Day.
Oscar Onyema, Chief Executive Officer, NSE, during the ceremony on Friday in Lagos, described the novelist as a testament that Nigeria is blessed with talented people.
A popular Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has designed a “Freedom of Expression” medallion in collaboration with Foundrae.
Nigeria’s Chimamanda Adichie will moderate a conversation with former U.S. First Lady, Michelle Obama, on her new memoir “Becoming”.
Three weeks after its release in July 2014, Half of a Yellow Sun, a film adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi-Adichie’s novel, was found being hawked on Lagos streets.
The prize is awarded to a writer from Britain, the Republic of Ireland or the Commonwealth, who casts an “unflinching, unswerving” gaze upon the world, and shows a “fierce intellectual determination … to define the real truth of our lives and our societies”.
In March, Chimamanda was also elected into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the second Nigerian to be so honoured after Prof. Wole Soyinka
New Yorkers cast their ballots for the book throughout February and said they wanted millions of residents to read it simultaneously
According to a press release by the Academy on http://artsandletters.org, the honorary members will be inducted at the annual induction in May
New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment said a committee made up of the heads of the New York Public Library, the deans of the major academic institutions, and leaders of the book publishing industry all helped to select the five books among hundreds