Ben Okri on the Late Chinua Achebe
“He was a man who answered the questions of his times, the times in which he found himself, in tough, brief, elegant novels and in doing that actually helped to create a language of literature in which many of us…
Monthly Archives: June 2015
Meditations on Greatness: Ben Okri in conversation with Ellah Allfrey
Saturday 4 July, 6.30pm –8.00pm, BL Conference Centre – Full Price: £10.00, concessions available
Caine Prize Reading Group Event
Saturday 4th July, 11.00 – 12.00, FREE: This is an event for reading group members to meet the short-listed writers and discuss their stories.
West Africa: Word, Symbol, Song
Saturday 4th July, 10.00-10.45 A preview of the British Library’s forthcoming exhibition with Dr Marion Wallace, Lead Curator, African Collections ‘West Africa: Word, Symbol, Song’ is the British Library’s next major exhibition, opening on 16 October 2015 and running until…
Romance in the Digital Age
Saturday 4 July, 12.15 – 13.15, FREE – Our panel discusses the changing nature of romance publishing, examining how current modes of digital distribution are opening up new possibilities for authors and publishers across Africa.
From Pasta to Pigfoot by Frances Mensah Williams
Saturday 4 July, 13.30 – 14.15, FREE
African Creative Non-fiction?: Moving the Boundaries
Saturday 4 July 14:30 – 15:30 FREE
Contemporary African Lyrics: Poetry in Performance
Saturday 4 July, 15:45 – 16:30, FREE
New Nigerian Fiction
Sunday 5 July, 12.15 – 13.15, FREE
Africa in Translation: What’s Love Got to Do with It?
Friday 3 July, 10:15 – 13.00, FREE Our annual translation symposium this year focuses on Love, taking Ankara Press’s ground-breaking Valentine’s Day Anthology of African Romance as a starting point.