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“Pay Attention. Be Astonished. Tell About It.”

Join us for an immersive journey into the natural world through the captivating words of Amanda Thomson, Genevieve Carver, and Taiye Ojo. This event combines insightful readings and engaging conversations, offering a unique opportunity to explore the beauty, wonder, and ecological concerns of our environment through their distinct literary perspectives.

📅 28th October, 2023
🕒 1:15pm
📍 Alliance Française | Mike Adenuga Center, 9 Osborne Road, Ikoyi
🎟️ FREE ENTRY (Registration required)

Lyric Portals to Past and Future Events

Alycia Pirmohamed’s Another Way to Split Water paints an intimate portrait of family across generations. Using elements from the natural world, she touches on themes of language, migration, and belonging, weaving tales that reshape and redefine identity.

According to Keguro Macharia, Ngwatilo Mawiyoo writes a poetry of place. With a growing body of work including two chapbooks (Dagoretti Corner, 2016, Blue Mothertongue, 2010), one EP, several published poems, essays, and films, Ngwatilo’s work is a mesmerizing blend of vivid imagery, rhythmic language, and profound introspection, traversing landscapes both external and internal, illuminating the complexities of identity, culture, and human connection with a unique and resonant voice.

In an enriching event of conversation and readings both poets share insights from their works and offer a space to explore how poetry can be a vehicle for interrogating the past and anticipating the future through personal and communal lenses.

📅 28th October, 2023
🕒 2:30pm
📍 Alliance Française | Mike Adenuga Center, 9 Osborne Road, Ikoyi
🎟️ FREE ENTRY (Registration required)

Where Stories Come From

Journey into the heart of storytelling with two remarkable authors, Edwige Renée-Dro and Heather Parry, as they discuss the origins and intricacies of myths and tales that reverberate across cultures yet root themselves in unique contexts. In Mythmaking Universalities, we unearth the sources of stories and explore the common threads and divergences in mythmaking across different cultures and traditions.

Heather Parry’s chilling debut novel, “Orpheus Builds a Girl,” tells a story of love, obsession, and the power and danger of stories and who gets to tell them.

From the Ivorian shores, Edwige Renée Dro, a writer, translator, and literary activist, brings a wealth of perspectives grounded in her diverse body of work and her co-founding venture, Abidjan Lit. Her stories, often deeply rooted in African contexts, resonate with universal themes and emotions, offering a rich oeuvre that challenge, inform, and enthrall.

Join us for an enlightening exploration of how stories shape, mirror, and challenge our understanding of the world around us. Moderated by Eghosa Imasuen.

📅 28th October, 2023
🕒 3:45pm
📍 Alliance Française | Mike Adenuga Center, 9 Osborne Road, Ikoyi
🎟️ FREE ENTRY (Registration required)

Unlayering the Self: Wana Udobang in Conversation with Bassey Ikpi

In her instantly bestselling memoir I’m Telling the Truth, but I’m Lying, Bassey Ikpi’s radical candor challenges our understanding of mental health, normalcy, and the duality of truth and fiction. In conversation with beloved poet and writer, Wana Udobang, both explore the dichotomies of truth and myth, vulnerability and strength, and confront the complexities of what it means to unlayer the self in a world obsessed with curated realities, where authenticity and vulnerability can both attract and terrify, heal and wound.

📅 28th October, 2023
🕒 5pm
📍Alliance Française | Mike Adenuga Center, 9 Osborne Road, Ikoyi
🎟️ FREE ENTRY (Registration required)

Tenderness As Resistance

Join Jericho Brown and Kweku Abimbola as they explore the ways in which tenderness challenges, disrupts, and redefines power dynamics, zooming in and out of their respective seminal collections, The Tradition and Saltwater Demands a Psalm. Jericho Brown’s unapologetic exploration of blackness, queerness, and the everyday violence wrought upon our bodies and spirits is offset by moments of profound intimacy and softness—a call to witness and resist in the same breath. Kweku Abimbola’s Saltwater Demands a Psalm sings its own hymn of resistance, drawing on ancestral rhythms and the relentless tug of diaspora. Navigating the intricate terrains of identity and displacement, the collection resonates with a yearning for belonging, balanced by the acceptance of the often tumultuous journey to self-discovery. Moderated by Richard Ali.

📅 28th October, 2023
🕒 6:15pm
📍 Alliance Française | Mike Adenuga Center, 9 Osborne Road, Ikoyi
🎟️ FREE ENTRY (Registration required)

Reciting the City

The city, with its unending buzz and ceaseless motion, has stories whispered in every corner. From the bustling markets to silent alleyways, from towering skyscrapers to hidden basements—every brick and pavement holds a tale. Join us for Reciting the City, an evocative evening where some of Nigeria’s finest young poets breathe life into urban narratives. Experience the rhythm of traffic jams, the murmurs of evening vendors, the silent gazes of strangers, and the secret hopes of dreamers looking up at city lights. Through their words, Iyanu Adebiyi, Tobi Abiodun, IB, Faith Moyosore, Oloyede Tom, and Taiye Ojo, will transport you to familiar lanes and unknown pathways, revealing the heart and soul of the city.

📅 28th October, 2023
🕒 8pm
📍 37 Lagos, at 37 Glover Court, Ikoyi
🎟️ FREE ENTRY (Registration required)

FESTIVAL EVENTS

“Pay Attention. Be Astonished. Tell About It.”

Lyric Portals to Past and Future Events

Where Stories Come From

Unlayering the Self: Wana Udobang in Conversation with Bassey Ikpi

Tenderness As Resistance

Reciting the City

A Thousand Splendid Tongues

Africa is a Poem

Tender Mercies: Poems from the Heart

A Seat at the Tables – On Prizes, Publishing and the Making of a Poem that Reaches Across

What the Poet Saw in the Water

Black Ownership and the Future of Culture in Africa