TFA @ 60 Celebrations Postponed
Lagos – The National Organising Committee (NOC) of the much awaited Things
Fall Apart @ 60 celebrations has declared that for some logistic reasons,
the programme will be postponed till later date.
Dr. Wale Okediran, the NOC chairman,
said the specific dates of the event would be communicated soon after due
deliberation with other committee members.
The programme, which was supposed to
hold between July and August this year, may have to wait till September/October
2018. He however assured that the committee will ensure that the new dates do
not clash with other literary engagements during the year.
“In view of the current challenges
being experienced with the logistics for the above named event, it has become imperative
that the TFA@60 celebrations be moved forwards from July/August to
September/October 2018.
“The NOC will soon meet to fix the
specific dates when these activities will take place in September/October
bearing in mind that the Minna Book and Arts Festival will take place between
September 18 and 22 while the ANA Annual Conference will take place between
October 25 and 28. Meanwhile, I will endeavour to confirm when the Ake Literary
Festival will take place.
“Our option for now will be to fix
our new dates from September 25 to October 10 2018 in order to accommodate
activities taking place in the designated seven centres including periods for
travels,” he said.
Things Fall Apart, first novel by Chinua Achebe, written in English, was
published in 1958. The book helped create the Nigerian literary renaissance of
the 1960s.
The novel chronicles the life of
Okonkwo, the leader of an Igbo community, from the events leading up to his
banishment from the community for accidentally killing a clansman, through the
seven years of his exile, to his return, and it addresses a particular problem
of emergent Africa—the intrusion in the 1890s of white missionaries and
colonial government into tribal Igbo society.
Traditionally structured, and
peppered with Igbo proverbs, it describes the simultaneous disintegration of
its protagonist Okonkwo and of his village. The novel was praised for its
intelligent and realistic treatment of tribal beliefs and of psychological
disintegration coincident with social unraveling.
The author, Professor Chinua Achebe
died on March 21, 2013, at age 82.
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