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The Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) and Rivers State University, Port Harcourt are set to celebrate the late renowned writer, Captain Elechi Amadi through the institution of an international lecture series.
Titled ANA/RSU International Conference on Creative Writing, the first edition of the event subtitled ‘Celebrating Elechi Amadi’ kicks off in Port Harcourt on 22 September 2022.
The two-day event includes lectures, panel discussions and varieties and participants are expected from far and near.
Invited guests include Chief Emeka Anyaoku, former Commonwealth Secretary-General, Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, Pan-African Writers Association Secretary-General, Dr Wale Okediran, among others.
Events for school children will also feature during the conference.
Late Captain Amadi wrote such celebrated works as The Concubine, Sunset in Biafra, The Slave and Estrangement.
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Captain Elechi Amadi wrote one of the finest prose works when he authored ‘The Concubine’ – an in-depth, intense, and well measured report, especially, as it concerns practises among his Ikwerre people. He deserves every recognition and honour the writing body, ANA, and or, any institutions may desire to accord him. Also, many keen watchers of important Nigerian events who may be lucky to attend the August event would be excited to see the likes of our eminent Chief Emeka Anyaoku, former Secretary General of the Commonwealth who has for some time not been as visible in national matters as would have been expected.