By Uduma Kalu
Foremost African novelist, Prof. Chinua Achebe will hold his 2010 colloquium on Africa this December 3-4 at Brown University , Providence , Rhode Island , USA.

The conference this year, Dr. Chidi Achebe, a member, Achebe Colloquium organizing committee in the United States, in a message to Saturday Vanguard, said will focus on several hot spots on the Africa: Angolan and the hope of its emerging success following three decades of turmoil, the crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo/Republic of Congo and the protracted war in the region; and finally Nigeria and its forth coming presidential elections.

The conference is organized under the auspices of the poet, social critic, and professor, Chinua Achebe, the David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and professor of Africana studies at Brown; where he oversees a major new initiative in keeping with his life’s work to foster greater knowledge of Africa, is aimed at bringing together world class intellectuals as well as officials from African governments, civil society, the United Nations, the U.S. government, the European Union, members of international human rights organizations, elections monitoring groups, and research and policy institutions; to deliberate on the importance of strengthening democracy on the African continent.