NOLLYWOOD actress Adesua Etomi alongside other 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.
The actress 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.
His book, ‘Things Fall Apart’ went on to become one of the most important books in African literature. Selling over 20 million copies around the world, it was translated into 57 languages, making Achebe the most translated African writer of all time.
The book, in recognition of its universality, appears in the Bokklubben World Library collection “proposed by one hundred writers from fifty-four different countries, compiled and organized in 2002 by the Norwegian Book Club. This list endeavors to reflect world literature, with books from all countries, cultures, and time periods.”
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.