Past Event

Featuring: Spoken Word performances, Readings from Achebe’s works, Tributes, and Music; Special appearance: Traditional Flute player.

* Segun Akinlolu (aka Beautiful Nubia), poet, folk singer, and musician.

* George Elliot Clarke, winner of the Governor-General’s Award for Poetry, and the inaugural E.J. Pratt Professor of Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto
* Titi Sonuga, Edmonton-based award-winning spoken word poet
* Obiora Udechukwu, poet and Distinguished Dana Professor of Arts and Art History, St Lawrence University, USA
* Komi Olafimihan (artist, spoken word poet, and photographer, Toronto)
* Olu Oguibe, poet, artist and Professor of Art and Art History and Associate Director of the Institute for African American Studies at the University of Connecticut.
* Keisha Monique Simpson (spoken word poet, Toronto)
* Okey Ndibe, author of Arrows of Rain and Visiting Professor, Brown University, USA

* Amatoritsero Ede, poet and editor of Maple Leaf Literary Supplement(MLTS), OttawaHosts
* Bola Asaju, The Nigerian High Commission, Ottawa
* Blair Rutherford, Director, Institute of African Studies, Carlton University
* Nduka Otiono, Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of African Studies, Carlton University
* Pius Adesanmi, Winner of the Penguin Prize for African Writing and Associate Professor, Department of English and the Institute of African Studies, Carleton University

For more information, please contact Nduka Otiono at notiono@yahoo.com .