KCee to headline this year’s Literary Evening

The event, facilitated by one of Nigeria’s most celebrated writers, Chimamanda Adichie, and Farafina Trust will bring together some of the world’s greatest writers from Nigeria and overseas in an exciting evening of book reading and fun. The event slated to hold at the Lagos Oriental Hotel is expected to bring to an end the […]

The event, facilitated by one of Nigeria’s most celebrated writers, Chimamanda Adichie, and Farafina Trust will bring together some of the world’s greatest writers from Nigeria and overseas in an exciting evening of book reading and fun.
The event slated to hold at the Lagos Oriental Hotel is expected to bring to an end the session for talented creative writers, who for the past 10 days, under expert tutelage, have been honing their writing skills.
Also expected is Kenya’s 2002 Caine Prize winner Binyavanga Wainaina and author of ‘Discovering Home’. Wainaina is the founding Editor of ‘Kwani’, the first literary magazine in East Africa since Transition Magazine and is currently a Bard Fellow and the director of the Chinua Achebe Center for African Literature and Languages at Bard College.
Aslak Sira Myhre, Norwegian politician and former party leader of Red Electoral Alliance (RV) who left politics to become an executive director of Iles, an association aimed at stimulating children and youth’s reading is also a guest. He is the director for the House of Literature in Oslo which opened in 2007 which is Europe’s largest and has more than 250,000 visits annually. 
The guest list also includes Nigeria’s Eghosa Imasuen, writer and medical doctor and author of ‘Fine Boys’ and ‘To Saint Patrick’.
The 10 day workshop comprising intensive classes where participants are assigned a wide range of daily reading and writing exercises is aimed at helping Nigerian writers improve their craft as well as encouraging budding writers to embrace new and refreshing perspectives in the unique art of storytelling.
Binyavanga Wainana who in 2007 declined the World Economic Forum “Young Global Leader” award given to people for “their potential to contribute to shaping the future of the world” has been part of the workshop since 2009. Other writers who have participated in the workshop and Literary Evening include Jeffery Renard Allen, Robert Spillman, Ama Ata Aidoo, and Chika Ike.
The workshop, which began in 2009, is in its 5th season and the organizers have promised guests an exciting time at the event.