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Chimamanda Adichie gets elected into the American Academy of Arts and Letters

Famous Nigerian author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has been elected into the American Academy of Arts and Letters as a foreign honorary member.

Chimamanda will be inducted alongside two other foreign honorees at the annual induction in May.

The award-winning author whose literary works, Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah, have been adapted for the screen will be the second Nigerian to be inducted into the academy.

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Wole Soyinka was the first to be inducted in 1986.

In a press release posted on its website, the academy revealed that 14 Americans and two foreign honorees will be inducted alongside the author.

The other foreign honorees are Kaija Saariaho, a Finnish composer, and Zadie Smith, an English writer.

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