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January 20, 2006
The Achebe Colloquium: In Celebration of Nigerian Excellence
by The Chinua Achebe Foundation (New York, USA) --- Our Elder Statesmen are speaking, and we are listening. In response to their thought provoking insights, we turn now to a younger generation of leaders within Nigeria and the Diaspora, whose life work offer diverse solutions to the worthy prescriptions of our elders for our beloved Nigeria.
The Achebe Colloquium, in collaboration with various Nigerian professional groups, is launching a project that will focus on a younger generation of Nigerians in different works of life whose careers are deemed synonymous with excellence, in order to continue the very consuming conversation of how to move our potentially great country forward.
The project aims to bring to the fore selfless leadership qualities in the younger generation that will help Nigeria transcend her multiple political, social and economic difficulties.
The Colloquium will showcase profiles and round table discussions of exceptional professionals in a myriad of fields. The Colloquium will be published in several media formats, beginning in May, 2006. At the project’s conclusion, they will be archived for posterity. The entire project will be conducted in a manner accessible to the majority of Nigerians and other interested persons in the world.
We invite our brilliant youth to join us as we ponder our collective future together.
Sincerely,
Professor Chinua Achebe
Founder & Chairman, Board of Directors
Chinua Achebe Foundation
Posted by Administrator at January 20, 2006 01:09 AM
Comments
Most people liken the birth and growth of a nation to a cyclical physiological evolution of womanhood. I strongly object to the notion that the continued and unremitting painful menstruation
Nigeria has been suffering, is a necessary developmental cycle. I believe those of us, apologists for the maelstrom that continued to plaqued us and served to deprive us our legitimate
place in the table of nations, will someday wake up, hope not too late, to realise the futility of
our misguided culture.
Cruel as it may seem, I believe Jerry Rawlings had
a perfect formula and it worked for Ghana. Maybe that could also work for Nigeria.
Posted by: EDWARD EYAMBA at January 22, 2006 04:16 PM
