Award winning Nigerian author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has been elected into the American Academy of Arts and Letters as a foreign honorary member and will be inducted at the
annual induction in May. Chimamanda will be the second Nigerian to be inducted into the academy. Prof. Wole Soyinka was the first and he was inducted in 1986.
The academy revealed in a press release on its website that 14 other people will be inducted alongside the author.
The American Academy of Arts and Letters is a honour society which aims to "foster, assist, and sustain excellence" in American literature, music, and art. It is currently a 250-person organization, but with the induction of Chimamanda and the others the number will increase.
Election into the American Academy of Arts and Letters is done once a year.
She is really a great woman!
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