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Chimamanda Adichie to bag 16th honorary degree from Catholic University
Chimamanda Adichie, an award winning Nigerian novelist will bag yet another honorary degree from The Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium.
The award slated for April 28, would be Chimamanda’s 16th honorary doctorate degree and would take place at the main campus in Louvain-la-Neuve, located 20 kilometers from Brussels. This was written in a statement signed by Editor-in-Chief, GLAZIA Communication, Omawumi Ogbe.
Ogbe disclosed that the school’s most famous alumni included mathematician Vitold Belevich and Queen Mathilde of Belgium and that the Rector of the University, Vincent Blondel, had said that the Academic Council considered Chimamanda’s work to be “remarkable in many ways and particularly inspiring for the university community.”
Blondel added that Chimamanda embodied the “values the University wishes to impart on their students, professors, researchers, and the entire university community.”
“For the new academic year, the university is highlighting the theme, ‘the fragility of truth.’ Adichie’s career, divided between fiction and the reality of struggles against all kinds of oppression, adequately illustrates this theme.”
“This honorary doctorate from the Catholic University of Louvain will be Adichie’s 16th honorary doctorate degree.
“She has received honorary degrees from some of the world’s best universities including Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania.
“Others are the University of Edinburgh, Duke University, Georgetown University, and Johns Hopkins University,” she said.
