{{An international cast of Nobel laureates and other luminaries has been incorporated into a committee preparing for the grand burial in May of Africa\u2019s pioneering man of letters, the late Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe.}}<\/p>\n
The names include Nobel Peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, Literature laureates Nadine Gordimer of South Africa and Toni Morrison of the US, a former President of Brown University in the US, Ruth Simmons, and former President of Spellman College in Atlanta, US, Johnetta B. Cole.<\/p>\n
Numerous other Nigeria-based committees have been set up to lay ground for a befitting send-off for the continent\u2019s most famous writer, who died in Boston on March 21 aged 82.<\/p>\n
The burial will be on May 23 in Achebe\u2019s hometown of Ogidi, Anambra state, in eastern Nigeria.<\/p>\n
His two sons, Ike and Chidi, said their father will be buried in a Christian way.<\/p>\n
In addition, a memorial service to celebrate Achebe\u2019s life has been scheduled for June 2 in Washington DC .<\/p>\n
Until his death, Achebe was the David and Mariana Fisher University Professor of African Studies and Literary Arts at Brown University.<\/p>\n
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