To mark this year’s world poetry day, the Abuja Writers Forum is hosting an online conversation on March 21 from 6-8 p.m. with some top Nigerian poets.
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Shola Adenekan, Olaniyan Olumide and Mariette Tchamda will be on the second edition of theAWFLinkUp via Zoom, billed for April 25 from 4- 6 p.m. Nigerian Time.
The trio will have a conversation on – “Where Would African Literature Be Without Writers’ Groups ?”
Adenekan, who will moderate the event, is an Assistant Professor at ASCA.
Shola Adenekan
He is also a recipient of a major grant from the European Commission, in which he will be leading a team of researchers – as a Principal Investigator – to study the networks of Yoruba Print Culture.
He has recently been awarded a Visiting Fellowship at the University of Ghana, Accra, by the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA). His book, “African Literature in the Digital Age”, has just been published by James Currey.