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Intimacy and the Exploration of Self: New Nonfiction Writing

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  • 2018
  • Nov 7, 2019
This panel was moderated by Ademola Adefolami and featured Howard Maximus, Tolu Daniel and Sibongile Fisher, all published in the ‘Selves’

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Ake Festival 2019 Press Release

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  • 2018
  • Aug 2, 2019

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Life and Time Series with Nuruddin Farah

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  • 2018
  • Nov 13, 2018
Nuruddin Farah, the headliner of the 2018 Ake Arts and Book Festival was interviewed by Kunle Ajibade a veteran journalist, editor and author.

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Documentary Panel by TJ Benson

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  • 2018
  • Nov 13, 2018
  TJ Benson moderates the documentary panel, which has Ummi Bakar, director of Uprooted, Amaka Vanni, co-director of Beyond Tolerance and

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Binti by Nnedi Okorafor and Beasts made of the Night by Tochi Onyebuchi. Moderator – Afopefoluwa Ojo by Tireni Odubiyi

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  • 2018
  • Nov 13, 2018
  “Writing and storytelling in general… are intoxicating,” says Tochi Onyebuchi on writing and constructing an entire world in his young

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Book Chat: Ordinary People by Diana Evans and The hundred wells of Salaga by Ayesha Haruna-Attah. Moderator Kinna Likimani by Tireni Odubiyi

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  • 2018
  • Nov 13, 2018
    ‘My goal as a writer is to make history sexy,’ says Ayesha Haruna-Attah on her novel The Hundred Wells of Salaga which focuses on

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The Black Panther Phenomenon by Tireni Odubiyi

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  • 2018
  • Nov 13, 2018
“Black Panther was with all due respect is a Western movie. A Western movie with African influences,” states panelist Kolawole Olanrewaju. The

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Understanding Afro-futurism by TJ Benson

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  • 2018
  • Nov 13, 2018
The panel is a fiery one. The notion of identity and evolution on the African continent is explored by Wole Talabi who was recently shortlisted

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Film Discussion – Chat with Film Directors by TJ Benson

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  • 2018
  • Nov 7, 2018
The film discussion held in the film room with Sade Adeniran, Bolaji Kekere-Ekun and Gordon Napier on panel. It was anchored by TJ Benson. TJ

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Dust to Dew by Betty Irabor and Lives of Great Men by Chike Edozien. Moderator – Olaokun Soyinka by Tireni Odubiyi

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  • 2018
  • Nov 7, 2018
“It is very important who you have in a corner,” says Betty Irabor, author of Dust to Dew, a memoir that tells her story battling with

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