{"id":53718,"date":"2026-03-26T11:41:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=53718"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:41:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:41:04","slug":"public-talk-and-poetry-evening-with-prof-nimi-wariboko-poet-and-director-african-studies-center-boston-university","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/event\/public-talk-and-poetry-evening-with-prof-nimi-wariboko-poet-and-director-african-studies-center-boston-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Talk and Poetry Evening with Prof. Nimi Wariboko, Poet and Director, African Studies Center, Boston University"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n\n\n<p>Join the Institute of African Studies, in collaboration with the Department of English, for a special Poetry Evening and Book Reading featuring Prof. Nimi Wariboko.<br><br>The internationally acclaimed author of over 30 books will read from his recent collections of poetry, Soap Bubbles (Guernica Editions) and Songs of Childhood: Biafra War Memories (Paperworth Books).<br>Registration link: <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/evening-of-poetry-and-book-launch-with-prof-nimi-wariboko-2\/\">https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/evening-of-poetry-and-book-launch-with-prof-nimi-wariboko-2\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":53719,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-53718","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2026-04-02 18:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2026-04-02 19:30:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":"NN","cu_event_meeting_room":"Carleton University Bookstore 173 Nideyin\u00e0n, First Floor ","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":"","cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"Gabriel Habiyaremye ","cu_event_email":"Gabriel.Habiyaremye@carleton.ca ","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/53718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/53718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53720,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/53718\/revisions\/53720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=53718"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=53718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}