Nigerian Multi-Award winning Author, and feminist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has been named amongst BBC’s list of 100 inspiring and impactful women in the world, for the year 2021.
The renowned writer is listed under the ‘Culture and Education’ category, which consists of 31 women out of the 100 that were chosen.
Under the post designated to her, the BBC commented that the 44-year-old’s TED Talk in 2012, titled, ‘We Should All Be Feminists’, kick-started a global conversation about feminism, and was eventually published as a book in 2014.
Speaking to the BBC, Chimamanda said, “Let’s use this moment to start to think about health care as a human right everywhere in the world. What a person deserves simply by virtue of being alive, not when you can afford it.”
Others who made it to the prestigious list are: Malala Yousafzai –the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate winner, Fiamē Naomi Mata’afa – Samoa’s first female Prime Minister, Professor Heidi J Larson – heads the Vaccine Confidence Project, and Turkish writer, Elif Şafak.
The annual BBC #100 Women list is aimed at inspiring people by sharing the stories of trailblazing women across the globe who are using passion, indignation, and anger to spark real conversation over salient issues and subsequently cause change.
According to the BBC, “This year 100 Women is highlighting those who are hitting ‘reset’; women playing their part to reinvent our society, our culture and our world.”
