Popular Nigerian writer, speaker and activist Chimamanda Adichie, couldn’t contain her excitement after attending an afternoon tea event in honor of billionaire American media mogul, Oprah Winfrey on Sunday, March 11th. The private event was hosted in London by Vogue editor-in-chief Edward Enninful to celebrate Oprah’s role in the film A Wrinkle In Time.
Meanwhile, Chimamanda Adichie has just been chosen as one of the six recipients of the Duke University’s Honorary Award in Durham, North Carolina come May 13th. She will be joined by fellow recipients, the CEO of General Motors, Mary Barra; former Durham, Mayor William Bell; Phil Freelon, lead architect for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture; Dr. William Kaelin, professor of medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School; and Attorney Russell M. Robinson II.
