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Svelte Nollywood damsel , Adesua Etomi alongside other eminent personalities will be guests in London on April 15, 2018 for the 60th anniversary live reading of Chinua Achebe’s #ThingsFallApart, holding at the Southbank Centre, London.
Adesua will be reading with Ben Okri and Lucian Msamati and other crew.
The event is organised to celebrate the iconic writer, who fondly called the “father of African literature”, died after a short illness on March 21, 2013 in Boston, USA.
He was laid to rest in his hometown in Ogidi, Anambra State.
Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has described the work as “the first novel in English which spoke from the interior of the African character, rather than portraying the African as an exotic, as the white man would see him.
According to Avil Beckford:” Things Fall Apart is a constant on the must-read book lists. Things Fall Apart is a seminal piece of work, and has had staying power because it’s the first time that any author demonstrated how European colonization impacted the natives, and it is written by someone from the country that was colonized. Other authors wrote about this topic, but they came at it from a different perspective”.