Purple Hibiscus writer, Chimamanda Adichie, to receive Harvard University’s W.E.B Du Bois Medal Award-winning Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is set to receive Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Medal on October 6. The W. E. B. Du Bois Medal which is Harvard's highest honour in the field of African and African American studies marks another return to Harvard for Chimamanda, who was the Harvard College Class Day Speaker in 2018 and was previously a Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellow (2011-2012). The Hutchins Center for African and African American Research announced in The Harvard...