By Paul Akalonu
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a celebrated author, has received Harvard University’s highest honor, the W. E. B. Du Bois Medal.
She was presented with the medal at a ceremony on Thursday.
The W. E. B. Du Bois Medal is Harvard University’s highest honor in African and African American studies. It is given to people from all over the world in recognition of their contributions to African and African American culture and the intellectual life.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Laverne Cox, Agnes Guns, Raymond J McGuire, Deval Patrick, and Betye Saar are among the other honorees.
In 1895, Dubois became the first African-American to receive a PhD from Harvard. Scholars, artists, writers, journalists, philanthropists, and public servants have all received the medal in the past.
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