Author Archives: Africa Writes

Of Heart & Home: Safe Houses for Queer Africans

DIGITAL ONLY Tuesday 19 October, 17:30 – 18:45 BST Venue: Crowdcast Tickets: FREE / £2 / £5 / £10 (Pay What You Can) With Annette Nyabundi, Chiké Frankie Edozien and others. A conversation on community activism and loving affirmation of self…

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…

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

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…