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Wednesday 27 April 2016

Chimamanda Adichie to receive Johns Hopkins honorary degree

Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, United States has announced a list of eight distinguished achievers who will receive honorary degrees this year.

The honorary degree will be conferred at the universitywide commencement ceremony on May 18 at Royal Farms Arena.


The list includes award-winning novelist Chimamanda  Ngozi Adichie, who earned a prestigious creative writing master's from the university, filmmaker Spike Lee, Nobel Prize winner Richard Axel and Ellen M Heller, Maryland’s first woman to become an administrative Circuit Court judge.

John Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels, said that they have made a lasting impact on the arts, public health, the law, neuroscience, and the resilience of communities here in Baltimore and across the globe.

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