Bishop Tutu leads committee for Achebe's burial
Nobel
Laureate, Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, is to head one of the
committees set up for burial of late eminent novelist, Prof. Chinua
Achebe.
Other
members of the committee, known as the international committee, are
Nadine Gordimer (South Africa); Toni Morrison (USA); Ruth Simmons,
18th President of Brown University and first black
president of an Ivy League institution (USA) and Dr. Johnetta Cole,
first African-American female president of Spelman College and
currently Director of Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of
African Art.
Two sons of the deceased
literary icon, Ike and Chidi, in a statement, Monday, listed the two other committees to
include central national committee, which would be made up of eminent
Nigerians from across the country, and the committee to make basic
preparations for South East activities in Enugu, Awka and Ogidi, home
town of the deceased.
The
committee is also to oversee activities in Denta and Rivers states
respectively.
“There
have been several questions on the nature of preparations for
Professor Chinua Achebe's funeral, memorial service and Celebration
of Life events,”
they read
They added that the burial will be at Ogidi, Anambra State on May
23, while the funeral will be “Christian and not traditional rites"
as has been reported.
"Memorial Service and Celebration of Life event will be on June
2, 2013 in Washington DC,” they said.
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