The 60th Birthday Colloquium/Cultural Evening in Honour of Kunle Ajibade
Toyin Falola
Subject: The 60th Birthday Colloquium/Cultural Evening in Honour of Kunle Ajibade
Dear Friend/Colleague/Well-wisher,
The 60th Birthday Colloquium/Cultural Evening in Honour of Kunle Ajibade
As you might be aware, our friend and colleague, Kunle Ajibade, a rounded journalist, author of Jailed for life, and What a Country!, an omoluabi to the core, will be 60 years old on May 28, 2018.
To honour him, the Friends of Kunle Ajibade and other well wishers are putting together a one-day Colloquium in his honour on Wednesday May 30 at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA) on Kofo Abayom Street, Victoria Island, Lagos by 10a.m. It would be followed by a Cultural Evening/Poetry Reading at Freedom Park, Broad Street, Lagos by 5p.m. on the same day.
The Colloquium, which would be led by Professor Wole Soyinka, the 1986 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, is on A Bright Future for Nigeria and How to Get There. This would involve a number of notable speakers including Dr. Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu; Mrs. Ayo Obe; Mr. Femi Falana (SAN); Ms. Ayisha Osori, Mr. Owei Lakemfa, etc. The Cultural Evening will comprise tributes, readings and music, involving poets, solo saxophonists, drummers and other performance artistes.
While looking forward to your attendance of these events, we also urge you to offer your support to these activites designed to honour our friend, who truly deserves to be celebrated. Your support could be channeled through the account opened towards this purpose, the detais of which are: Friends of Kunle Ajibade At 60; Diamond Bank; Account Number: 0101212343. We thank you in anticipation of your contribution.
Sincerely.
Odia OFEIMUN
Chairman, Organising Committee
Ololade BAMIDELE
Secretary, Organising Committee