Achebe Redivivus

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Acclaimed as the most widely known African writer on the planet and the ‘father of modern African literature,’ Chinua Achebe (1930-2013) is one of the key literary figures of the twentieth century. In this two-day conference, world-leading scholars and rising stars in the fields of anthropology, literary modernism, African politics, African literature, African history, and African art will offer fresh, meticulously researched insights into some of the well-trodden contexts of Achebe’s work. The conference will also generate theoretical and methodological reflections, considering the process of reinvigorating the study of Achebe’s work while providing veritable models for creating the literary history of the postcolonial world. It aims to re-situate Achebe in the world republic of letters as both a literary and political figure of incontestable aesthetic value, intellectual profundity and extraordinary range.

Conference convenor

Terri Ochiagha, University of Edinburgh/University of Oxford

Speakers

• Abba A. Abba, Federal University, Lokoja
• Gbolahan Adeola, Yale University
• Allegra Ayida, Yale University
• Paul Basu, Pitts Rivers Museum/University of Oxford
• Simukai Chigudu, University of Oxford
• Herbert M. Cole, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Matthew Eatough, City University of New York
• Louisa Egbunike, Durham University
• Paula García Ramírez, University of Jaén
• Kerry Manzo, State University of New York at Purchase College
• Stephanie Newell, Yale University
• Obi Nwakanma, Central University of Florida
• Maik Nwosu, University of Denver
• Terri Ochiagha, University of Edinburgh/University of Oxford
• Timothy Ogene, Harvard University
• Katherina Adewoyin Oke, University of Graz
• Portia Owusu, Texas A&M University
• Françoise Ugochukwu, Open University
• Daria Tunca, University of Liège

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