{"id":8644,"date":"2018-03-10T20:14:14","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T03:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=8644"},"modified":"2018-03-10T20:14:14","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T03:14:14","slug":"nigerian-chimamanda-adichie-named-among-6-honorees-at-duke-university-in-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/nigerian-chimamanda-adichie-named-among-6-honorees-at-duke-university-in-north-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian\u00a0Chimamanda Adichie named among 6 honorees at Duke University in North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-sidebar-wrap\">\n<article class=\"post-1133494 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail category-news tag-chimamanda-negozi-adichie tag-duke-university tag-honorary-degree entry\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<p class=\"entry-title\">Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to receive Honorary Degree from Duke University \ud83d\ude4c\ud83c\udffd<\/p>\n<p>Nigerian author\u00a0Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie\u00a0will receive an honorary degree from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina on Sunday, May 13th.<\/p>\n<p>According to Duke Today, Chimamanda\u2019s \u00a0visit to Duke University in 2018 will be particularly special, as her 2013 book Americanah was selected as the pre-matriculation summer reading assignment for this year\u2019s graduating class. She visited Duke in September 2014 to discuss her book with the members of the Class of 2018, who were then first-year students.<\/p>\n<p>Chimamanda will be one of six honorees at the 2018 commencement ceremony.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1133498\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bellanaija.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1091619-litterature-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-ecrivain-portrait.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"1440\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to receive Honorary Degree from Duke University \ud83d\ude4c\ud83c\udffd Nigerian author\u00a0Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie\u00a0will receive an honorary degree from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina on Sunday, May 13th. According to Duke Today, Chimamanda\u2019s \u00a0visit to Duke University in 2018 will be particularly special, as her 2013 book Americanah was selected as the pre-matriculation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"news-category":[323,322],"class_list":["post-8644","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-category-top-news","news-category-world","entry","has-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nigerian\u00a0Chimamanda Adichie named among 6 honorees at Duke University in North Carolina<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nigerian\u00a0Chimamanda Adichie named among 6 honorees at Duke University in North Carolina\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" 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