Book lovers can attend a lecture titled “Achebe’s Anger: An African Critique of Colonial Representation” at 9 a.m. Friday in the Grand Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

The lecture is part of Eastern’s annual Literature Conference.

The Literature Conference was founded in 1988, and has provided a forum for the discussion of literary works, a press release stated. The annual gathering treats a different author each year.

Zoreh Sullivan, a professor of English from the University of Illinois, will present the lecture. Sullivan is the author of many books and articles on colonial and post-colonial literatures, a press release stated.

English professor David Raybin hosted the first Literature Conference, which was about Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales,” and has been involved since.

The lecture is good for teachers and those who want to be teachers, Raybin said.

“It is difficult to teach certain works of literature,” Raybin said, “(The Literature Conference) is stimulating for teachers it gives them teaching techniques.

“(Teachers) will realize why they like books,” he said.

Anyone who likes to read will enjoy the lecture. People who come to the lecture will most likely want to purchase the book, read it and discuss it, Raybin said.

The lecture is based on the book “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe, an African novelist, Raybin said.

“Things Fall Apart” is an African response to the European colonization of Africa.

“This is about what Africa was really like during that time, from the Africans’ perspective,” Raybin said. Other works about the colonization of Africa have been from the European perspective,” Raybin said.

The lecture is free and anyone may attend.