Coca-Cola World Lecture Fund – Chimamanda Adichie

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (’08 M.A.) is an internationally acclaimed Nigerian author and poet who is widely recognized for her postcolonial feminist literature, including her most recent novel, Dream Count. She graduated summa cum laude from Eastern Connecticut State University with a degree in Communication and Political Science. She has an M.A. in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins University and an M.A. in African History from Yale University. She was awarded a Hodder fellowship at Princeton University for the 2005-2006 academic year and a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute of Harvard University for the 2011-2012 academic year. In 2008, she received a MacArthur Fellowship. Adichie’s work has been translated into more than thirty languages. Her first novel, Purple Hibiscus (2003), won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and her second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), won the Orange Prize. Her 2013 novel Americanah won the US National Book Critics Circle Award and was named one of The New York Times Top Ten Best Books of 2013. She has delivered two landmark TED talks: her 2009 TED Talk, “The Danger of A Single Story” and her 2012 TEDx Euston talk, “We Should All Be Feminists,” which started a worldwide conversation about feminism and was published as a book in 2014. She was named one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2015. In 2017, Fortune Magazine named her one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders. She is a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Since 1992, the Coca-Cola World Fund at Yale University has supported an annual lecture on topics of international significance by a major public figure. Recent Coca-Cola World Lecturers include: Ban Ki-Moon, Michael Doyle, Gary Hart, Tom Friedman, Nicholas Kristof, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Sam Nunn, Sadako Ogata, Samantha Power, Mary Robinson, Raghuram Rajan, Eboo Patel, Mo Ibrahim, Marwan Muasher, Raila Odinga, John Githongo, Deborah Brautigam, Mahmood Mamdani, Sarah Chayes, and Sergio Jaramillo.