Multiple award-winning novelist, Chimamanda Adichie, has received an honorary degree from Ivy league college, Yale University.
The 41-year-old was honoured with Doctor of Letters, Honoris Causa degree.
Yale, founded in 1701, is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States.
Chimamanda shared pictures from the ceremony on Instagram on Monday.
“Doctor of Letters, Honoris Causa. Yale University,” she wrote.
The writer graduated with a Master’s Degree in African History from Yale University in 2008.
Chimamanda was the invited speaker for the 2019 Yale Class Day where she spoke to the graduating class.
The Enugu-born essayist came to limelight for her first novel titled Purple Hibiscus, published in 2003.
She has gone to write others including Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah.
