Chinua Achebe
The 2014 Achebe Colloquium on Africa] — African Literature as Restoration: Chinua Achebe as Teacher will be held at Brown University, from May 1-3, 2014.
An International
gathering of scholars, artists, musicians, writers, and officials will gather
at Brown University May 1-3, 2014, to discuss and celebrate the cultural
contributions of Chinua Achebe, the late Nigerian novelist and the David and
Marianna Fisher University Professor and professor of Africana studies at
Brown, who died
in March 2013
at the age of 82. Achebe started the colloquium in 2009 to bring attention to
issues affecting Africa.
On Thursday
May 1, 2014, Elizabeth Donnelly, Assistant Head and Research Fellow, Africa
Program, Chatham House, - The Royal Institute of International Affairs - London, Great Britain; will deliver the
opening address at the Colloquium. Her talk will “focus on Boko Haram -what is
known, what is not known, and the implications and what can be done.” The event begins at 5:30 p.m.
