Tag: Jude Dibia

  • African writers converge for Berlin’s first African Book Festival.

    African writers converge for Berlin’s first African Book Festival.

    Writers from across the African continent converged on Berlin for the first African Book Festival with Chris Abani as the headliner on April 26-28, 2018. Organised by the InterKontinental and curated by Olumide Popoola, the festival looked at transnationalism and migration in a more literary sense of “keeping in motion”. Berlin has a very unique…

  • Engaging the Fringe at the Ake Festival #AkeFest2015

    Engaging the Fringe at the Ake Festival #AkeFest2015

    The theme at the Ake Festival 2015 this year was Engaging The Fringe. This meant that there were events that focused on genres and creative endeavor that are not regarded as ‘mainstream’ in spite of their growing popularity and availability. There were panels all through the festival but Friday had some of the most poignant…

  • Ake Festival assures guests on Ebola, has cool artist line up

    Ake Festival assures guests on Ebola, has cool artist line up

    So you heard about Ebola and how it is terrorising the Western part of this continent no? Well, it’s concerning many people who want to head to that part of our rock for whatever reason. Well, even the literature world is not spared as two of the biggest literary festivals were lined up for Nigeria;…

  • Outted in Nigeria: a review of Jude Dibia’s Walking with Shadows

    Outted in Nigeria: a review of Jude Dibia’s Walking with Shadows

    Book: Walking With ShadowsWriter: Jude DibiaPublisher: BlackSands BooksYear of publication: 2005Number of pages: 255 In which a gay Lagos executive is outted by a colleague and how it affects him and his family. It was all fun and games in Nairobi as we awaited Binyavanga Wainaina’s latest literary baby The Africa39 Project when he decided…