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International Day of the Girl Child 2017: Empower Girls
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Volunteers, friends and supporters in the US, and coordinators across Africa supported the campaign by promoting the importance of gender equality and human rights for girls and women….
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Author’s Talk 2017: Unpacking Your Diversity Stories
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The writers, who came from across Nigeria had a dialogue on the effect of a single story, the interconnectedness in the different experiences of writers from different backgrounds, the challenges confronted by emerging voices…
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Author’s Talk 2016: Social Media for Literary Transformation
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Gone are the days when only published authors were read across the world, and in most cases, not all published writers received the same amount of readership. With the emergence of social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter,...
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International Day of the Girl Child: The Power of One Book, One Girl
St Annes Girls School, located in Ibadan, the South-West region of Nigeria— and the largest city in West Africa, started in 1929 with an increasingly yearly enrollment of girls from diverse backgrounds, especially local communities across the city….
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Author’s Talk 2015: Writing, through the Perspective of an Unpublished Writer
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There is an estimate of 1.1 billion unpublished writers across the world, and more than a million unheard stories….
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