UN honours late Achebe on october 30, 2013 at 4:42 pm
in news New york — The United
Nations has devoted Friday,
November 15, 2013 to late
Professor Chinua Achebe who
died last march in Boston, US. Achebe was once a UN
Goodwill ambassador from
1999 to 2005. The event holds
at Dag Hammarskjold Library
Auditorium, UN Headquarters,
New York. In an invite sent to Vanguard
by the United Nations SRC
Society of Writers and United
Nations SRC Film Society, the
global body said the event
featuring music, film, readings and recollections by family and
friends, is part of Achebe’s
83rd post-humous birthday
celebrations. On its website, the United
Nations Population Fund,
through its Executive Director,
Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin said,
“Mr. Achebe will forever be
credited for his leading role in shaping the course of Africa’s
literary traditions and for
conveying its authentic voice to
the world at large.”
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