Nigerian writer

Author’s Talk 2019: The African Writer and the English Language

by Inspire Community Network|04 August 201919 July 2022|Author's Talk, Icon Blog

Can a story be considered an African literature if written in English Language? Does English Language accurately capture the diverse African experiences or proverbs? Should African Writers write in their mother tongues? Are African writers pressurized to change their tone...

Author’s Talk 2018: The Art of Sanity

by Inspire Community Network|12 August 201819 July 2022|Author's Talk, Icon Blog

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…

Author’s Talk 2017: Unpacking Your Diversity Stories

by Inspire Community Network|05 August 201719 July 2022|Author's Talk, Icon Blog

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…

Author’s Talk 2016: Social Media for Literary Transformation

by Inspire Community Network|14 October 201619 July 2022|Author's Talk, Icon Blog

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,...

Author’s Talk 2015: Writing, through the Perspective of an Unpublished Writer

by Inspire Community Network|07 August 201519 July 2022|Author's Talk, Icon Blog

There is an estimate of 1.1 billion unpublished writers across the world, and more than a million unheard stories….