Tag: Olumide Popoola
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Polari Prizes 2025 longlists announced
The Polari Prizes 2025 longlists were announced in London, UK, on Friday, August 1, 2025. Here are the writers of African descent on it. The Polari First Book Prize was established to celebrate new writing with a focus on LGBTIQ issues by writers born or based in the UK and Ireland by Paul Burston in…
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Book Digest: Olumide Popoola, Albert Kokolomami, Dorcy Rugamba, Sarah Dass
We wrap up book news for our readers in our regular Book Digest segment with books from Olumide Popoola, Albert Kokolomami, Dorcy Rugamba, and Sarah Dass. Like Water Like Sea by Olumide Popoola Publisher: Cassava Republic PressDate: May 9, 2024Genre: FictionLanguage: EnglishWhere to find it: Olumide Popoola Olumide Popoola is a London-based Nigerian German writer…
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Dangarembga, Popoola, Wakatama Allfrey at African Book Festival 2019 opening round. #ABF2019
Tsitsi Dangarembga, Olumide Popoola, and Ellah Wakatama Allfrey were the first on stage at the African Book Festival 2019 in Berlin, Germany on April 4, 2019. The three were moderated by Prof Flora Veit-Wild. The opening roundtable of the African Book Festival at the Babylon Theatre in Berlin featured Olumide Popoola, Tsitsi Dangarembga, and Ellah…
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Berlin’s African Book Festival 2019 guest list unveiled.
The guest list for Berlin’s African Book Festival 2019 has been unveiled. The festival curated by writer and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga runs from April 4-7, 2019. In 2018, writers from across Africa and its diaspora converged on Berlin for the African Book Festival with Chris Abani as the headliner. The festival organised by InterKontinental and…
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Olumide Popoola, Ngartia rock the crowd at Goethe Nairobi.
Olumide Popoola and Ngartia starred at the Goethe-Institut Nairobi’s Artistic Encounters on Thursday, September 13, 2018. The event was moderated by blogger James Murua. There was a full house at the Goethe-Institut at Maendeleo House in Nairobi for the September edition of the popular series “Artistic Encounters.” The project curated by Zukiswa Wanner usually sees…
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Olumide Popoola, Ngartia for Goethe’s Artistic Encounters.
Writer and speaker Olumide Popoola and performance poet Ngartia are the featured artists at Goethe-Institut Nairobi’s Artistic Encounters on Thursday September 13, 2018. The event will be moderated by blogger James Murua. In Goethe-Institut Kenya’s Artistic Encounters, a project curated by Zukiswa Wanner, two artists of different genres meet and share their art in front…
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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…