Ake Arts & Book Festival

Latest Past Events

Palm Wine & Poetry

Strong Tower Events Centre 40 Alfred Rewane Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria, Ikoyi

This event has become the trademark Ake Festival sign-off event and a firm favourite with the audience. With guests in high spirits after three intense days of enjoying new books and art and mingling and chatting with authors, creatives, guests and friends, the ‘survivors’, gather to be entertained by the spoken word and rejuvenated with 

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Free

Life and Time Series

Strong Tower Events Centre 40 Alfred Rewane Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria, Ikoyi

Life and Time Series - Veronique Tadjo

Free

African Feminist Identities Across Generations (Panel Discussion)

Strong Tower Events Centre 40 Alfred Rewane Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria, Ikoyi

Despite most African countries leaning towards patriarchial societies, there is a strong tradition of powerful women in the public space. Therefore, it is not surprising to find feminism thriving. However, as traditional approaches to gender roles evolve and the younger generations face new challenges, inevitably, strategic disagreements have emerged within the feminist movement. Where do 

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