She has received honorary doctorate degrees from Eastern Connecticut State University, Johns Hopkins University, Haverford College, Williams College, the University of Edinburgh, Duke University, Amherst College, Bowdoin College, SOAS University of London, American University, Georgetown University, Yale University, Rhode Island School of Design, Northwestern University, University of Pennsylvania, Skidmore College and University of Johannesburg. In 2008, she received a MacArthur Fellowship. She was awarded a Hodder fellowship at Princeton University for the 2005-2006 academic year, and a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute of Harvard University for the 2011-2012 academic year. She has a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins University and a Master of Arts degree in African History from Yale University. Purple Hibiscus tells the story of a 15-year-old girl in Nigeria, learning to resist the control of her religious father as the country falls apart under a military coup. Her debut novel, it was first published by Algonquin Books in 2003. She graduated summa cum laude from Eastern Connecticut State University with a degree in Communication and Political Science. Purple Hibiscus is a novel written by the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. She studied medicine for a year at Nsukka and then left for the US at the age of 19 to continue her education on a different path. She grew up on the campus of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where her father was a professor and her mother was the first female Registrar. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Enugu, Nigeria in 1977.
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