Tag: Prof Niyi Osundare
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Long Read: Prof Niyi Osundare keynote at Lagos Book and Arts Festival 2017
In our continuing series on Long Reads for lovers of African literature, we present the keynote address at the Lagos Book and Arts Festival 2017 (Labaf 2017). The keynote given by festival guest of honour Prof Niyi Osundare followed the theme of Eruptions: Global Fractures, and Our Common Humanity. It was given on Friday, Nov.…
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Lagos Book & Art Festival 2017 dedicated to Prof Niyi Osundare
The Lagos Book & Art Festival 2017 will be hosted from November 6-12 at Freedom Park, Lagos. The festival, popularly known as LABAF, with the theme “ERUPTIONS: Global FRACTURES & Collective Humanism,” is dedicated to Prof Niyi Osundare. LABAF now in its 19th year is a week-long cultural picnic including readings sessions, conversations around books,…
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The Ake Arts and Book Festival 2015 is here!
At this moment people are flying into Nigeria from all over world headed to Abeokuta; they are all coming to that city a couple of hours away from Lagos to attend the Ake Festival 2015. The Ake Festival was born in 2013 and it has quickly become the go to festival to meet African and…
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Hargeysa International Book Fair: Day 5 images and videos
Here are some images and videos from day five of the Haregysa International Book Fair 2015 taken with my trusty camera phone.
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Hargeysa International Book Fair 2015: Day 5 winding it down
The Hargeysa International Book Fair 2015 is winding down to the sadness of delegates, both local and international, who are interacting, learning and have become friends with one another. There were several highlights from this day. One of these was the luncheon that the Mansour Hotel, which is where all international guests stayed, gave. At…
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Hargeysa International Book Fair 2015: Day 4 images and videos
Here are some images and videos from the fourth day of the Hargeysa International Book Fair 2015 taken with my trusty camera phone. Maimouna Jallow, Prof Niyi Osundare, and Okey Ndibe Chuma Nwokolo and Jonny Steinberg live tweeting the event Nimo Jirdeh moderates Ciku Kimeria Mary Harper moderates Maimouna Jallow Prof Mpalive Msiska, Nadifa Mohamed,…
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Hargeysa International Book Fair 2015: Day 3 images and videos
Here are some images and videos from the third day of the Haregysa International Book Fair 2015 taken with my trusty camera phone.
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Hargeysa International Book Fair 2015: Day 3 thrills and spills
The action in the hottest literary festival happening right now continued in the biggest city in Somaliland on Monday. We had been enjoying the rich literary offering and world-class friendliness of the people of Hargeisa and it didn’t look like it was changing any time in the near future. There were many panels that we…
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Hargeysa International Book Fair 2015: Day 6 ends dramatically
On the closing day of the Hargeysa International Book Fair 2015, a festival that brought people from fourteen countries from around the world together to Hargeisa, there were still panels. The panel on Knowledge Production and Somali studies with Dr Siyam Rayale, Nimo Ali and Yusuf Serunkuma as discussants promised to be engaging. The panel…
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Hargeysa International Book Fair 2015: Day 6 ends dramatically
On the closing day of the Hargeysa International Book Fair 2015, a festival that brought people from fourteen countries from around the world together to Hargeisa, there were still panels. The panel on Knowledge Production and Somali studies with Dr Siyam Rayale, Nimo Ali, and Yusuf Serunkuma as discussants promised to be engaging. The panel…
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Hargeysa International Book Fair: Day 5 images and videos
Here are some images and videos from day five of the Hargeysa International Book Fair 2015 taken with my trusty camera phone.
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Hargeysa International Book Fair 2015: Day 5 winding it down
The Hargeysa International Book Fair 2015 is winding down to the sadness of delegates, both local and international, who are interacting, learning, and have become friends with one another. There were several highlights from this day. One of these was the luncheon that the Mansour Hotel, which is where all international guests stayed, gave. At…
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Hargeysa International Book Fair 2015: Day 4 images and videos
Here are some images and videos from the fourth day of the Haregysa International Book Fair 2015 taken by my trusty camera phone.
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Hargeysa International Book Fair 2015: Day 3 images and videos
Here are some images and videos from the third day of the Hargeysa International Book Fair 2015 taken with my trusty camera phone.
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Hargeysa International Book Fair 2015: Day 3 thrills and spills
The action in the hottest literary festival happening right now continued in the biggest city in Somaliland on Monday. We had been enjoying the rich literary offering and world-class friendliness of the people of Hargeisa and it didn’t look like it was changing any time in the near future. There were many panels that we…