Nwando Achebe
Awards & Honours
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Awards Won
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Nwando Achebe's scholarship has been recognized with the Melville J. Herskovits Prize, one of the highest honors in African studies, for her groundbreaking biography of Ahebi Ugbabe. She has also received fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Center and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and holds the title of University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University, a rare distinction. Her election as president of the African Studies Association underscores her leadership in the field.
Awards
Honours & Distinctions
University Distinguished Professor
Highest faculty honor at MSU, recognizing outstanding scholarly achievement.
Jack and Margaret Sweet Endowed Professor of History
Endowed chair in history.
Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center
Residential fellowship for research.
Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities
Competitive fellowship for scholarly research.
Records & Feats
First woman to be crowned king in colonial Nigeria (subject of her book)
Her book The Female King of Colonial Nigeria documents the life of Ahebi Ugbabe, who was crowned king by the British, a remarkable feat for a woman in that era.