CONGRATS!!! CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE & WOLE SOYINKA NAMED TWO OF AFRICA’S GREATEST INNOVATORS IN ARTS & SCIENCES

Nigerian author and self proclaimed feminist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and writer, poet and playwright Wole Soyinka have been named two of Africa’s Greatest Innovators in Arts and Sciences.

National Geographic asked Professor Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr., the director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute at Harvard University, to name some of Africa’s top intellectual innovators. The American literary critic/educator/scholar/writer selected the 36-year-old “Half of a Yellow Sun” author and 79-year-old Nobel Laureate.

Also on the list is late Nigerian drummer Babatunde Olatunji.