The Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium has announced plans to bestow an honorary doctorate degree on Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Adichie.
According to a statement signed by Omawumi Ogbe, Editor-in-Chief, GLAZIA Communication, the April 28 award will be Chimamanda’s 16th honorary doctorate degree.
She stated that the ceremony would be held at the main campus in Louvain-la-Neuve, which is located 20 kilometers from Brussels.
According to her, the awarding institution was founded in 1425 by Pope Martin V and is one of Europe’s oldest Catholic universities as well as Belgium’s largest French-speaking university.
She stated that among the school’s most famous alumni were mathematician Vitold Belevich and Belgian Queen Mathilde.
Ogbe revealed that the Academic Council considered Chimamanda’s work to be “remarkable in many ways and particularly inspiring for the university community,” according to the Rector of the University, Vincent Blondel.
Blondel went on to say that Chimamanda personified the “values the University wishes to instill in their students, professors, researchers, and the entire university community.”
“The university’s theme for the new academic year is ‘the fragility of truth.’ This theme is adequately illustrated by Adichie’s career, which is divided between fiction and the reality of struggles against various forms of oppression.”
“This will be Adichie’s 16th honorary doctorate degree from the Catholic University of Louvain.”
“She has been awarded honorary degrees from some of the world’s top universities, including Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania.”
“Other universities include the University of Edinburgh, Duke University, Georgetown University, and Johns Hopkins University,” she added.
