By Patricia Uyeh

Prolific multiple award-winning writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie recently got honoured with the 2019 Everett M. Rogers Award.

The annual award, which is named in honour of the late USC Annenberg professor Everett M. Rogers, is presented every year by the Norman Lear Center at the University of Southern California (USC) on behalf of the university’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

The ‘Americannah writer got honoured for “reframing the discourse on race, gender and identity”.

She would be receiving the award and speaking at the USC Annenberg School come February 2019.