Chimamanda Leads Other Creatives to Things Fall Apart Festival in Enugu

 

In memory of Chinua Achebe and the celebration of the success recorded by his first work, "Things Fall Apart", published in 1958, Enugu-based Centre for Memories – Ncheta Ndigbo has put together an event tagged Things Fall Apart Festival where Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, one of Nigeria's famous writers and feminists will be delivering the keynote address. 

The event is scheduled to hold in Enugu from the 29th of June to the 5th of July and is themed "Masculine, Feminine, Human: The Dialogue of Complements in Things Fall Apart". The festival’s theme further invites a critical look into Achebe's inheritance—a powerful reflection on storytelling, cultural rootedness, and the timeless dialogue between history and identity and the harmony and tension between gender ideals, anchoring it on contemporary conversations like identity, humanity, and cultural balance.

The week-long cultural immersion is designed to feature art exhibition, essay competition for students in senior secondary and higher institutions and the general public, film screenings and guided memory walks, dramatic and musicaĺ performances, staged readings, salon conversations with thought leaders and immersive tech installations with a re-imagination and recreation of the Umuofia Village experience.

Courtesy: TheTalk.Ng