Chinua Achebe Literary Festival

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Chinua Achebe Literary Festival is an annual literary event held in honour of Nigerian writer and literary critic Chinua Achebe, the author of Things Fall Apart (1958), in commemoration and celebration of his works and immense contributions in the literary field. Chinua Achebe lived between 16 November 1930 to 21 March 2013, when he died in Massachusetts, United States. The literary festival was initiated in 2016, three years after Achebe's death, by award-winning Nigerian writer, journalist, and Igbo-language activist Izunna Okafor, who is also Anambra State's Coordinator of Society of Young Nigerian Writers, the literary body that organizes the event. Since its inception, the event has been held annually on Chinua Achebe's date of birth (16 November) at the Prof.

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