Chimamanda to Receive Honorary Degree From John Hopkins

Nigeria Writer and avowed feminist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been selected among the eight ‘distinguished achievers’ who will receive honorary degrees from Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, United States this year.

According to the University, Ms Adichie, a groundbreaking filmmaker, an award-winning novelist, a Nobel Prize winner, and Maryland’s first woman to become an administrative Circuit Court judge and three more achievers will be conferred with the honorary degrees at the universitywide commencement ceremony on May 18 at Royal Farms Arena.

“The men and women in this group are visionaries who have challenged the status quo and changed the world for the better,” said Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels.

“They have made a lasting impact on the arts, public health, the law, neuroscience, and the resilience of communities here in Baltimore and across the globe.

At Johns Hopkins, we share their commitment to innovate and to work for the benefit of humankind, and I’m so pleased that these honorary degrees will celebrate all they have accomplished.”