Author’s Talk 2018: The Art of Sanity

This year’s Author’s Talk, ‘The Art of Sanity,’ focuses on a topic that is most often dismissed from African writer’s mainstream discourse: mental health. Mental health is still a controversial topic in most part of the country and less conversations about it have resulted to unpleasant situations for not just writers, but for people directly and indirectly affected. The Author’s Talk provided a safe space for writers to share personal mental health journeys, discuss topics related to the mind, body and brain reaction to depression and ill-societal factors contribution to its development.