Tag: LABAF 2015

  • Videos from the Lagos Books and Arts Festival #LABAF2015

    Videos from the Lagos Books and Arts Festival #LABAF2015

    The Lagos Books and Arts Festival was hosted primarily at the Freedom Park in Lagos from 13th to 15th November. It was an explosion of arts at the park in Victoria Island with exhibitions, panel discussions, book chats, concerts, poetry presentations and a whole lot more. Here are five videos from some of the participants…

  • Elnathan John and Abubakar Adam Ibrahim #OccupyGoetheLagos #Labaf2015

    Elnathan John and Abubakar Adam Ibrahim #OccupyGoetheLagos #Labaf2015

    The Goethe Institut in Lagos hosted Elnathan John and Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, two of the hottest writers on the African continent right now, to a British Council-sponsored event as part of the Lagos Book and Arts Festival. The two writers whose newest books Born On a Tuesday (Cassava Republic) for Elnathan and Season of Crimson…

  • British Council’s publishing Creative Hustle at the Lagos Theatre #LABAF2015

    British Council’s publishing Creative Hustle at the Lagos Theatre #LABAF2015

    The British Council hosted Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, Eghosa Imasuen and Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, three heavyweights in new African writing at the Lagos National Theatre on Friday morning. It has been as part of the many activities that is the Lagos Festival of Books and Arts aka Labaf. The British Council has been doing a series of…