Browsing: Lola Shoneyin

This year’s edition featured 30 events, including book chats, panel discussions, documentary and film screenings.

In a bid to help popularise the work of African authors across the continent, the personalities will read extracts from “The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives”, a novel by the African-born Nigerian poet, Lola Shoneyin.

Hadiza Bala-Usman, Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority, says reading for pleasure is key to one’s transformation.

A first print, first edition copy of late Chinua Achebe’s premier novel ‘Things Fall Apart’ has been purchased for one million naira.