A definite highlight of this weekend was getting down to The Bernie Grant Arts Centre and meeting Irenosen Okojie. Her newest collection of short stories, Nudibranch, is out now. Continue reading Irenosen Okojie Tottenham Literature Festival 2019
Any excuse at all to go to Libreria, one of my favourite places in London (I profiled it here) so it was great spending Thursday evening there for an event – Black Literary History: An African Perspective with Inua Ellams, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi and Sylvia Arthur Who are they? Inua Ellams– Playwright (The Barbershop Chronicles); Writer (The Half God Of Rainfall, Fourth Estate 2019; Candy Coated Unicorns and Converse All Stars , Flipped Eye 2011) Jennifer … Continue reading Libreria with Inua Ellams, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi and Sylvia Arthur
Michael Donkor is a Londoner born in 1985 to Ghanaian parents and works as a teacher in a girl’s school (one of his students even turned up for the reading!) Continue reading Review Bookshop, Peckham: Michael Donkor reads ‘Hold’
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