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PRINCETON READS<br />

Achebe speaks<br />

Chinua Achebe provided a special<br />

closing to the community-wide book<br />

discussion event <strong>Princeton</strong> Reads<br />

with a special appearance at Nassau<br />

Presbyterian Church. More than 800<br />

people heard Achebe read from his<br />

seminal novel Things Fall Apart and<br />

discuss his work and the state<br />

of African literature in a discussion<br />

moderated by <strong>Princeton</strong> University<br />

philosophy professor Kwame Anthony<br />

Appiah. The event was co-sponsored by<br />

the library, Labyrinth Books, The Nathan<br />

Cummings Foundation and <strong>Princeton</strong><br />

University’s Center for African American<br />

Studies, Program in African Studies<br />

and Carl A. Fields Center for Equality<br />

and Cultural Understanding.<br />

Photos by Cie Stroud<br />

Unless otherwise noted, all progamming is in the Community Room, first floor connections THE PRINCETON PUBLIC LIBRARY NEWSLETTER 27

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