In this Report Chinua Achebe is an Acclaimed South African Writer

The Alternative Information Center reports that on Saturday the Israeli police forcefully closed the Palestine Festival of Literature in East Jerusalem.

"The festival included the participation of 17 internationally-known literary figures and an audience of local and international participants", the report reveals.

In the same report, we learn that this is the second year of the festival. The inaugural one was attended last year by many renowned writers, including the South African author Chinua Achebe. South Africa, Nigeria, what's the difference? J.M Coetzee, after all, is a Zambian author. But I'm now focusing on the trivial.

Disrupting, in fact dispersing, a writer's festival. Can you believe these guys?

Read the whole story at AIC.