Tag: Ake Arts and Book Festival
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Covid-19: Ake Arts and Book Festival 2020 to go online.
In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Ake Arts and Book Festival 2020 has today announced that it will run fully online when it happens on October 22-25, 2020. The Ake Arts & Book Festival, popularly known as the Ake Festival, has been running in Nigeria since 2012. It has hosted many of the…
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Literary festivals across Africa you can attend in October 2019.
We share with you a list of literary festivals you can attend across Africa in October 2019. September was a very activity-filled month of the year with festivals galore from the West with Kaduna Book and Arts Festival 2019 and the East with the Kistrech International Poetry Festival 2019, African Writers Conference 2019, Macondo Literary…
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Nuruddin Farah leads star studded guest list for Ake Festival 2018.
The Ake Festival 2018 in Lagos, Nigeria from October 25 – 27 will feature a battery of guests from across the African world of books and the arts led by festival headliner Nuruddin Farah. As earlier announced, the theme this year will be “fantastical futures.” The Ake Arts and Book Festival is organised by the Book…
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Ama Ata Aidoo for Ake Arts and Book Festival 2017
The Ake Arts and Book Festival 2017 will take place at the Arts and Cultural Centre, Kuto, Abeokuta on November 14-18, 2017. This year’s theme is “This F-Word” and conversations will focus largely on creative women doing amazing things both on the African continent and beyond. Time really flies when you are having fun. It…
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Rallying for Binyavanga Wainaina #LoveForBinyavanga
Binyavanga Wainaina. This is a name synonymous with some of the best that has come out of Kenya in the last twenty years. He emerged when he won the Caine Prize for African writing in 2002. Some would have taken the money and moved to a bigger apartment and lived off his fame until further…