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Ngozi Achebe visits Vancouver

14 October 2011 at 01:34 | 414 views

Nigerian novelist Ngozi Achebe, pictured, is visiting Vancouver, Canada this weekend as a special guest of the Nigeria-Canada Friendship League (NCFL), the University of British Columbia Awareness Initiative, Africar Canada Television and the Patriotic Vanguard newspaper.

The Nigerian writer will take part in a free event titled: A Dialogue On African Literature at UBC Saturday October 15, 2011 at 6pm. She will also meet with a group of Canadian writers and prominent Nigerians in Vancouver Friday evening.

There will be cultural dances from Vancouver’s African community at the UBC event on Saturday.

In June this year PV had an exclusive interview with Ngozi. Click on the following link for that interview: http://www.thepatrioticvanguard.com/spip.php?article5971

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