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Paul Beatty’s The Sellout and Nicole Dennis-Benn’s Here Comes the Sun. Moderator-Tolu Daniel by Tireni Odubiyi

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  • 2018
  • Nov 7, 2018
I feel that both books were identical in that idea of lacking an ending,” says Tolu Daniel, host of this book chat with Paul Beatty author of The

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What do Women Want by TJ Benson

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  • 2018
  • Nov 7, 2018
The panel is moderated by Wana Udobang, who introduces the activist Mona Eltahawy, Elizabeth Uviebinene and Yomi Adegoke, the duo who wrote the

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Divinity and Spirituality in Igbo Tradition

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  • 2018
  • Nov 7, 2018
Moderator Yvonne Mbanefo begins the panel discussion by explaining the term ‘Odinani’. She says that the term simply means traditional religious

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Entertainment, Education and Technology in the Mother Tongue

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  • 2018
  • Nov 7, 2018
This panel session was moderated by Kola Tubosun. It featured Tunde Adegbola, Kunle Afolayan and Dayo Olagunju as guest speakers.  Starting the

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Book Chat: Wake Me When I’m Gone by Odafe Otagun and The Ones with Purpose by Cynthia Jele by Lade Tawak

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  • 2018
  • Nov 7, 2018
Cynthia Jele’s first book, Happiness is a Four-Letter Word was published over 8 years ago to considerable success including winning the

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Book Chat: Of Women and Frogs by Bisi Adjapon by Tireni Odubiyi

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  • 2018
  • Nov 7, 2018
“For an African woman, this story is steeped in sex and sexuality,” Toni Kan says hosting the book chat on Bisi Adjapon’s Of Women and Frogs

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The Future of Poetry by TJ Benson

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  • 2018
  • Nov 7, 2018
    Kicking off the panel, the moderator, Dami Ajayi asks the panelists, Theresa Lola, Wana Udobang, Inua Ellams, Logan February and

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Bookchat: Nik Mhlongo’s Soweto under the Apricot Tree and Peter Kimani’s Dance of the Jakaranda

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  • 2018
  • Nov 7, 2018
My reading of African Literature especially on colonisation which was a very painful period made me want to tell such stories in new ways

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The Fear of Queer by Tireni Odubiyi

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  • 2018
  • Nov 7, 2018
“The estimated population of queer people in Nigeria is larger than the total population of Lagos State and there are allegedly 22 million people

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Been-To and Home Coming by Lade Tawak

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  • 2018
  • Nov 7, 2018
The panel between Bisi Adjapon, Bọbọ Omotayo, and Misan Rewane is moderated by Yinka Ibukun. It is a lively conversation around what it means to

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