Comfort Food with Wana Wana
DIGITAL ONLY Wednesday 20 October 2021 Time: 16:00 – 17:30 (BST) Venue: Zoom Tickets: FREE / £2 / £5 / £10 (Pay What You Can) With Wana Udobang. A poetry workshop that uses food and recipes as a pathway to…
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Blurred Lines: Realism & Fantasy
DIGITAL ONLY Thursday 21 October, 18:30 – 20:00 BST Venue: Crowdcast Tickets: FREE /£2 / £5 / £10 (Pay What You Can) With Nii Ayikwei-Parkes, Boakyewaa Glover, Afia Atakora & others. Exploring the blurred lines of fantasy and reality in…
Sex Lives of African Women
IN PERSON & LIVE STREAM Saturday 23 October, 14:30 – 16:00 BST Venue: Knowledge Centre Theatre and British Library Player Tickets: Included in Saturday Day Pass With Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, Desta Haile, Hibaq Osman and lyds. Searingly honest, courageous and vulnerable…
Inherited: All Our Names
IN PERSON & LIVE-STREAMED Africa Writes 2021 Headline Event Saturday 23 October, 17:30 – 19:00 (BST) Knowledge Centre Theatre and British Library Player Tickets: £10 / £8 / £5* (or also included in Saturday Day Pass) A rhythmic evening of…
Of This Our Country
IN PERSON & LIVE STREAM Sunday 24 October, 12:00 – 13:30 BST Venue: Knowledge Centre Theatre and British Library Player Tickets: Included in Sunday Day Pass With Chikodili Emelumadu, Inua Ellams and Abi Daré and readings from J K Chukwu,…
Wild Imperfections
IN PERSON & LIVE STREAM Sunday 24 October, 14:30 – 16:00 BST Venue: Knowledge Centre Theatre and British Library Player Tickets: Included in Sunday Day Pass With Natalia Molebatsi, Anni Domingo, Kadija Sesay, Olumide Popoola, Tj Dema and Tolu Agbelusi….
Dismantling the Patriarchy: Mona Eltahawy in conversation
IN PERSON & LIVE-STREAMED Africa Writes 2021 Headline Event Sunday 24 October, 17:00 – 18:30 (BST) Knowledge Centre Theatre and British Library Player Tickets: £10 / £8 / £5* (or also included in Sunday Day Pass) A bold, uncompromising feminist…
Poetry in the Primary Classroom Roundtable
DIGITAL ONLY Africa Writes Young Voices 2021 Friday 24 September, 13:00 – 14:30 (BST) Venue: British Library Player Tickets: FREE With Farrah Serroukh, Charlotte Hacking, Ruth Awolola, Gaby Wilson and Olivia Danso. We hosted an education round-table event, for those…
Africa Writes 2021 Headliners
This October, Africa Writes, the UK’s largest celebration of contemporary African and diaspora literature, explores boyhood, dismantles patriarchy and questions inheritance 4 – 24 October 2021 | www.africawrites.org Africa Writes, the UK’s largest celebration of contemporary African and diaspora literature…
Africa Writes 2023 Tickets
Get your tickets for the TENTH British Library Edition of Africa Writes Festival as we explore the theme of Intangible Heritage. We have day tickets, weekend tickets and also online tickets that will give you access to stream everything happening…