Following the sudden exit of Chinua Achebe, doyen of African literature,founding editor of the African Writers Series and one of the founders of the Association of Nigerian Authors, the National Executive Council of the Association of Nigerian Authors is organizing a cross-country Tribute by all its chapters of the federation in honour of her departed grand trustee.

Each chapter is hereby directed by the National EXCO to organize sessions of tribute to Chinua Achebe between the 1st and 15th of April, 2013 where writers who have encountered the novelist in academic, communal, literary or other contexts would render or submit tributes to the memory of the departed Icon of African literature in English. The tributes would subsequently be featured in a national publication by the National EXCO of the Association of Nigerian Authors.

All chapters should endeavour to reach out to communities, organisations, governments, educational institutions, cultural groups and organisations, art clubs within their geographical scope in order to send in tributes befitting the status of Prof. Chinua Achebe.

Similarly, the national body must be furnished with the detailed plans of each chapter before these special sessions.