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Pleasant view by Celeste Mohamed and A Broken People’s Playlist by Chimeka Garricks (Book Chat)

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

Toni Kan will be in conversation with two authors who have painted gritty, realistic and uncompromising pictures of life in Africa and the Caribbean. Written in a combination of English and Trinidad Creole, Pleasantview reveals the dark side of the Caribbean dream. In this novel-in-stories about a fictional town in Trinidad, we see a reality 

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After Lives by Abdulrazak Gurnah (Book Chat)

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

In Afterlives, we meet a little boy, Ilyas, who was stolen from his village by the German colonial troops. After years away, he returns to find his parents gone and his sister Afiya given away. He meets Hamza, also returned from the war. Their fates linked, these young people rebuild their lives until the shadow 

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The Beautiful Side of the Moon by Leye Adenle and House of Rust by Khadija Abdalla Bajaber (Book Chat)

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

What would happen if God forgot who he was? Drawing on age-old African story-telling traditions, modern science-fiction and contemporary thriller writing, award-winning Nigerian author Leye Adenle (Easy Motion Tourist, When Trouble Sleeps) conjures up an entirely new way of seeing life. He will discuss this enchanting world with Bookchat host, Kenanao Phele.