Award-winning novelist and short story writer Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor was hosted to a series of events in Lagos at the tail end of September 2025.
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor is not a new name to those who read our reporting here at Writing Africa. The Kenyan novelist, the author of the novels Dust (2013) and The Dragonfly Sea (2019), gained international fame when her short story The Weight of Whispers (2002) won the Caine Prize for African writing in 2003. Her debut novel, Dust, won the Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature and was shortlisted for the Folio Prize. The Nairobi native has, in the last few years, built a name as a leading intellectual with submissions to numerous fora on the continent and internationally. (Check out her keynote, Re-Worlding Africa: Imagination, Time & Sculpting The Future, delivered in Nairobi in July).
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor was hosted to a series of events in Lagos in the last week of September, starting with a meeting at the University of Lagos on September 24. She then delivered the 41st Michael Omolayole Management Lecture themed, “Plotlines of Prosperity: African Stories, African Rights & African Returns,” which was hosted by AIESEC Nigeria Alumni in Victoria Island, Lagos, on September 25.
On September 26, she was hosted by the Committee for Relevant Art, CORA, to an event entitled “Experience the Power of Story” at Freedom Park, Lagos. It included performances by Starkids, dramatised readings, and a conversation conducted by Samuel Osaze. Here are images from the Freedom Park event.
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