Tag: Ibom Art and Book Festival

  • Exclusive: Roland Watson-Grant visits Nigeria’s Ibom Festival

    Exclusive: Roland Watson-Grant visits Nigeria’s Ibom Festival

    Jamaican writer Roland Watson-Grant gives us an exclusive glimpse into his visit to the Ibom Art and Book Festival hosted in Uyo, Nigeria from July 28-31, 2022. Roland Watson-Grant is a Jamaican novelist, screenwriter, and travel writer who won the Caribbean edition of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2021. His novels include Sketcher (2013) and…

  • Ibom Art and Book Festival 2022 for Uyo, Nigeria in July.

    Ibom Art and Book Festival 2022 for Uyo, Nigeria in July.

    The Ibom Art and Book Festival, organised by the Inspire Community Network, will be hosted in Uyo, Nigeria from July 28-31, 2022. In 2012, Nigerian Kate Ekanem started Kate Tales Foundation, an NGO, that promoted girls’ right to education and basic human right, women empowerment, and young writers’ development. The organisation did several events with…