Keynote Address - 2022 Chinua Achebe
Literary Festival and Memorial Lecture, Wednesday, November 16, 2022 at Prof
Kenneth Dike Central E-Library, Awka, Anambra State
By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Chinua Achebe lived in glory as the one-man institution who conquered the world for Mother Africa, and the great Kenyan novelist, Ngugi wa Thiongo, put it in these words: “Achebe bestrides generations and geographies. Every country in Africa claims him as their own.”
On November 16, 1930, Albert Chinualumogu Achebe was born to a teacher-cum-evangelist father of the Anglican Communion in the town of Nnobi, near his hometown of Ogidi, in present-day Anambra State.
