VIDEO: Eulogies For Chinua Achebe As He Is Laid To Rest

The Literary icon; Professor Chinua Achebe was on Thursday buried in his hometown of Ogidi, Anambra state laid to rest with a funeral service held  at St. Philips Anglican Church. The literary icon died in Boston, United States last March 21 at the age of 82.

President Goodluck Jonathan and his Ghanaian counterpart, John Mahama were some of the guests that attended the church service to pay their last respects to the late writer.

However, the two leaders described Professor Achebe as a man of conviction who never shied away from telling the truth. President Jonathan at the church service promised that the federal government and the Government of Ghana would collaborate to rebuild the St. Philip’s Central School, Ogidi,

Anambra State, where Prof. Chinua Achebe had his primary education.