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3/27/00

AFRICAN WRITER TO SPEAK AT ST. LAWRENCE

CANTON -- Chinua Achebe, one of Africa's best-known writers, 
will speak and read from his work at St. Lawrence University 
on Monday, April 3, at 8 p.m. in the Common Room of Sykes Residence 
Hall. The event, part of both the African Arts: Into the Next 
Millennium series and the Writers Series, is open to the public, 
free of charge. 
	His first novel, Things Fall Apart (1958), is a benchmark 
in African literature. In subsequent novels, No Longer at Ease, Arrow 
of God, A Man of the People, and Anthills of the Savannah, he continues 
his exploration of the personal and societal boundaries that confine, 
liberate and ultimately define men and women.
 	Some other works by Achebe include short-story collections 
The Sacrificial Egg and Other Stories and Girls at War and Other 
Stories; Beware Soul Brother and Other Poems; essays "Morning Yet 
On Creation Day" and "Hopes and Impediments"; and children's books 
Chike and the River, The Flute and The Drum. In Another Africa, a 
1998 collaboration with photographer Robert Lyons, Africa's story 
is explored through a kaleidoscope of image, essay, and poetry.
 	Achebe is the recipient of numerous honors from around the 
world in recognition of his literary achievements. He has been 
Charles P. Stevenson Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard 
College since 1990. 

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