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Enugu-based Centre for Memories - Ncheta Ndigbo hosts the Things Fall Apart Festival successful honour of Chinua Achebe
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie gives the keynote code connected Masculine, Feminine, Human: The Dialogue of Complements successful Things Fall Apart
The week-long festival coincides with the 67th day of the novel, Things Fall Apart
Things Fall Apart, a fictional publication written by the legendary writer Chinua Achebe, is 67 years old. The lit substance work by galore was primitively published connected June 17, 1958.
In representation of the writer and a solemnisation of the occurrence recorded by the book, Enugu-based Centre for Memories - Ncheta Ndigbo has enactment unneurotic the inaugural variation of the Things Fall Apart Festival.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a renowned Nigerian novelist, nationalist intelligence and feminist, volition present the keynote code astatine the festival with the theme: Masculine, Feminine, Human: The Dialogue of Complements successful Things Fall Apart.
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The festival's taxable further invites a captious look astatine the harmony and hostility betwixt sex ideals successful Achebe’s books, anchoring it connected modern conversations connected identity, humanity, and taste balance.
Chimamanda would pb different creatives similar storytellers, artists, poets and others successful honour of the representation of pre-eminent storyteller, precocious Chinua Achebe, astatine the inaugural variation of the Things Fall Apart Festival.
The week-long taste immersion is designed to honour Achebe’s bequest done art, performance, technology, and assistance with a re-imagination and recreation of the Umuofia Village experience, melodramatic performances and staged readings, salon conversations with taste thought leaders and immersive tech installations.
It volition besides feature an creation exhibition, effort contention for students successful elder secondary and higher institutions and the wide public, movie screenings and guided representation walks.
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The event, billed to beryllium held successful Enugu from June 29 to July 5, arsenic the organisers program to crook the yearly Things Fall Apart Day solemnisation into a week-long solemnisation of activities. Currently successful its 5th year, the organisers privation the lawsuit to beryllium a full-blown festival that champion approximates the stature of Chinua Achebe successful satellite literature.
It's a homecoming for Chimamanda Adichie to honour the representation of 1 of her top literate influences from Nigeria. She would besides research “the Achebean inheritance”—a almighty reflection connected storytelling, taste rootedness, and the timeless dialog betwixt past and identity.
Centre for Memories – Ncheta Ndigbo
The organisers, the Centre for Memories – Ncheta Ndigbo, was calved retired of a imaginativeness to make a world-class depository and taste instauration that serves arsenic a starring repository of Ìgbò history, heritage, and individuality successful 2017. Rooted successful the committedness to sphere and beforehand the corporate representation of Ndi Ìgbò, the Centre documents and showcases the affluent Ìgbò culture, traditions, and humanities excellence.
Armed with the ngo to physique a dynamic and enduring abstraction that curates, educates, and inspires, highlighting Ìgbò contributions to Nigeria and the world, the centre has gained nationalist designation and increasing planetary acclaim for its innovative programming and dedication to humanities and taste preservation.
Chimamanda Adichie makes Met Gala debut
Legit.ng had earlier reported that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was among the Nigerian celebrities who attended the 2025 Met Gala.
Chimamanda wore Prabal Gurung to the event, wherever she walked the bluish carpet to observe the museum's Costume Institute exhibition, Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.
Aside from being a impermanent astatine the event's foundation gala, Adichie was besides a subordinate of the 2025 edition's big committee.
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