Princeton University’s Africa World Initiative and Program in African Studies in partnership with The Christie and Chinua Achebe Foundation are hosting the Chinua Achebe Symposium and 10th Anniversary Memorial Celebration on September 29th and 30th, 2023.
The symposium on September 29, with an international cast of senior and emerging scholars, marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of Achebe’s blistering political treatise The Trouble With Nigeria. Three panels will examine new directions in Achebe studies, the politics of canonicity, and African literatures in the age of historical reckonings, while a roundtable discussion focuses on leadership and statecraft in Nigeria and Africa.
Conference
participants:
Portia Owusu – Texas A&M
University
Jeanne-Marie
Jackson – Johns Hopkins University
Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang – University of Ghana
Sarah Duff – Colby College
Chielozona Eze – Carleton College
Simon Gikandi – Princeton University
Juliana Makuchi
Nfah-Abbenyi
– NC State University
Ranka Primorac – University of
Southampton
Meg Arenberg – The Africa Institute,
Sharjah
Terri Ochiagha – University of
Edinburgh
Simukai Chigudu – University of Oxford
Ainehi Edoro – University of
Wisconsin-Madison
Mukoma wa Ngugi – Cornell University
Maik Nwosu – University of
Denver-Colorado
Hannah Essien – Princeton University
Chris Abani – Northwestern
University
Obi Nwakanma – University of Central
Florida
Anthonia Kalu – University of
California-Riverside
Wale Lawal – Editor, The Republic, Lagos
Adeleke Adeeko – The Ohio University
Keynote Speaker: HE Peter Obi, former Governor of Anambra State, Nigeria
* Symposium Advisory Committee: Christopher Okonkwo (Florida State University, Chair), Ato Quayson (Stanford University), Terri Ochiagha (University of Edinburgh), Grace Musila (University of the Witwatersrand)
The
memorial celebration on September 30th will be
graced by His Royal Majesty, Igwe Alex
Onyido, the Monarch of Ogidi Kingdom in Nigeria, and will feature tributes
by Abena Busia, Toyin Falola, Simon Gikandi,
Richard Joseph, Anthonia Kalu, Sonia Sanchez,
and Obiora Udechukwu; readings by Patrice Nganang and Chika Unigwe, as well as praise poetry
by Udoji Achebe and Ojaadiligbo, a dance act by Dorobucci Dance Company, a solo mbira
performance by Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa,
and the Eme & Heteru Afro-roots
Band.
Both
events are open to the public; Registration required. More information will
follow soon.
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