AN INVITATION TO A SPECIAL WRITERS MEET

AN INVITATION TO A SPECIAL WRITERS MEET

 

Dear ANA Members,

 

Following the death of the France-based Martinique Poet-Statesman of the Negritude fame, Aime Caesair in April, and the 50^th anniversary of the novel book of pride by Nigeria's African pride and novelist, Chinua Achebe, the Association of Nigerian Authors, Lagos sees continuities in the defense and restoration of the African pride in these two writers and culture defenders which we believe is deserving of a tribute to Caesair, and congratulatory of Chinua Achebe.

 

We would therefore be honoured to have you attend this special event.

 

THEME: CONTINUITIES IN AFRICAN DEFENCE: FROM AIME       CAESAIR TO CHINUA ACHEBE

 

Speakers: Chinweizu, a writer and Pan Africanist of great fame

                      Author, The West and the Rest of Us, Decolonising the                                                                                 African Mind, Anatomy of Female of Power etc

 

Mr. Joel BERTRAND The Director, French Cultural Centre, and Alliance Française Lagos.

 

Moderator: Dr. Reuben Abati, Scholar,Journalist and

                    Chairman, Editorial Board of the Guardian

 

Special Features: Mr.Pete Edochie as Okonkwo in the novel Things Fall

                       Apart, and Mr. Justus Esiri as Obeirika in the film adaptation

 

Guest Writer: Mr.Odili Ujubuonu, Novelist and Advertising practitioner,

                        Author of Pregnant gods, Treasures in the Wind

 

Please come with your "Thank you Letter to Chinua Achebe"for reading and submission for the coming collection to be published for Achebe's birthday in November.