Chimamanda Adichie gets Honorary Degree from Bowdoin College

Chimamanda Adichie gets Honorary Degree from Bowdoin College

Nigerian writer and speaker Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has received an honorary degree from Bowdoin College.

Adichie was one of 3 honored by the liberal arts college, the other two being: chemist and Nobel laureate Thomas R. Cech and former diplomat and government official Susan E. Rice.

Adichie sat to speak about her writing, walking into the hall in a dress by Mmakamba, to a loud ovation.

She talked about writing novels, saying finishing one “is a kind of sadness.”

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