Africa Writes 2018: Loving Womxn - Deliberate and Afraid of Nothing
Sunday 1 July, British Library, London
With Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, Liv Little, and Trifonia Melibea Obono (via video). Chaired by Eliza Anyangwe.
Exploring narratives by queer womxn across Africa and the diaspora, and creating spaces for womxn to tell their stories. This event marks the publication Sista! which explores the challenges, joys, heart-aches, rewards and experiences of same-gender-loving womxn; She Called Me Woman, a stirring and intimate collection of 25 unique narratives from Nigeria; gal-dem magazine and creative collective based in the UK; and La Bastarda by Trifonia Melibea Obono, described as ‘a teenage orphan’s quest of self-discovery’, and the first novel by an Equatorial Guinean womxn to be translated into English.
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