Chimamanda Adichie now a MacArthur Fellow
Chimamanda Adichie is one of the recipients of the 2008 MacArthur Fellowship, which comes with a generous stipend of USD 500 000.00. The fellowship “ awards unrestricted fellowships to talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction. There are three criteria for selection of Fellows: exceptional creativity, promise for important future advances based on a track record of significant accomplishment, and potential for the fellowship to facilitate subsequent creative work.”
Another great day for African literature. Congratulations, Chimamanda!
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Great stuff. Congratulations Chima!
Can someone give the RBZ Chima’s contact details ASAP! Alternatively Chima can come over here and ’spin’ or ‘pisa’ that cheddar
Has anyone else noticed the influence of our very own Tsitsi Dangarembga on Chimamanda’s work? I have read other Nigerian female writers, Emecheta etc, but Adichie smacks of Dangarembga’s “Nervous Conditions”.
Zimbabweans now defining African Literature in English!!!!