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Kunle Ajibade delivers keynote at Lagos book and art festival today

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Kunle Ajibade delivers keynote at Lagos book and art festival today 2

Art Festival (LABAF 2021) on Saturday afternoon, November 20, 2021.

The festival started November 15 at the Freedom Park, Lagos Island, Nigeria, with the theme, A FORK IN THE ROAD, but the heart of the feast lies in the three weekend days of Friday November 19 to Sunday November 21, when the main books of the festival are discussed.

Ajibade, a leading journalist, editor and co-founder of The News, is author of Jailed For Life and What A Country.

The colloquium is entitled: A Fork in The Road, What Choices For Nigeria? Ajibade’s presentation will be followed by reviews and conversations around Love Does Not Win Elections by Ayisha Osori; The Bead Collector by Sefi Atta and I, Eric Ngale by Eric Ngale.

Ajibade’s keynote will engage with the main thematic concerns in the books that are to be discussed after the address”, says Jahman Anikulapo, Programme Chair of the Committee for Relevant Art (CORA), which is hosting the event

The reviewers and discussants on the colloqium panel include  Onome Onwahliterary enthusiast; Pelu Awofesowriter, journalist and Aysha Abdulahi, literary activist.

Anikulapo, a former Editor of The Guardian on Sunday and co-convener of LABAF, explains the choice of the theme A Fork in The Road, for the Festival. “After the period of languor ushered in by the COVID 19 pandemic, which justified our choice of last year’s festival theme: A State of Flux, the nation has seemingly reached a tipping point with every parameter used to describe the quality of life.  All the demons have crawled out of the woodwork. At this point, we are at A Fork in the Road”.

The entire seven-day programme of LABAF 2021 can be accessed here.

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