Why Celebrating World Book Day Is So Important by Sade Fadipe
Behold, it’s March 7th ... the unfolding of another World Book Day, and who knows which famous book characters will be trooping into schools this morning?
Behold, it’s March 7th ... the unfolding of another World Book Day, and who knows which famous book characters will be trooping into schools this morning?
This was a sell-out dinner.
Pride Month may be over but there’s still room for celebration! We’re celebrating one year since the publication of Olumide Popoola’s amazing debut novel When We Speak of Nothing, a book that captures what it’s like to be young, black and queer.
If there are no role models where do you look to? If the whole world tells you you are one thing how do you escape? Especially when this thing is more than not overloaded with negative connotations, rendering you a threat foremost?
Last week, we shared the first part of a list on books with LGBTQ lead characters as part of celebration for the 2018 pride month. To continue this celebration, here is the second part of the list.
for pride month, here is the first list of 25 books with lead LGBTQ characters that we think you should be reading or at the very least, add to your library.
African media give undue relevance, privilege and recognition to works by Africans produced in the West while conveniently overlooking the exact same works available in the country.
Cassava Republic Press has acquired ‘A Stranger’s Pose,’ a narrative non-fiction by writer Emmanuel Iduma, about his travels across a number of African cities. A Stranger’s Pose will be published in Autumn 2018, with a Foreword by writer and New York Times Magazine photography critic, Teju Cole.
On 23rd April 2018, thousands of books will be given out across the UK on World Book Night. Now an annual celebration of reading and books, World Book Night was established in 2011 as a means of encouraging more adults to read. Books are given out across the UK with a focus on reaching those who don’t regularly read, and are gifted through organisations including prisons, libraries, colleges, hospitals, care homes and homeless shelters, as well as by passionate individuals who give out their own books within their communities.
In a tweet chat with YNaija, Azeenarh Mohammed, Chitra Nagarajan, and Rafeeat Aliyu, editors of She Called Me Woman: Nigeria’s Queer Women Speak, spoke extensively on their experience of editing the book, interviewing the narrators and the struggles of queer women in Nigeria – some of whom they said, have faced both severe experiences trying to live their truth and the enormous support they have received in Nigeria.