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  • K-Cee to perform as NB literary evening holds today
  • KCee, the Limpopo crooner would headline this
    year's Literary Evening as the 2013 edition of the
    Creative Writing Workshop sponsored by
    Nigerian Breweries draws to a close this Friday at the Lagos Oriental Hotel. The event facilitated by Chimamanda Adichie, Nigeria's celebrated
    international writer and Farafina Trust would
    bring together great writers from Nigeria and
    overseas in an evening of book reading and fun.
    Amongwriters expected at the event outside ChimamandaAdichie are;Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina; who in July 2002 won the Caine Prize for his short story"Discovering Home". He is the founding Editor of Kwani , the first literary magazine in East Africa since Transition Magazine. Binyavanga is currently a Bard Fellow and the director of the Chinua Achebe Center for African Literature and
    Languages at Bard College.
    AslakSiraMyhre; a Norwegian politician and
    former party leader of Red Electoral Alliance
    (RV) who left politics to become an executive
    director of !les, an association to stimulate
    children and youth to read more. He is the
    director for the House of Literature in Oslo
    which opened in 2007 and is Europe's largest and has more than 250,000 visits annually. Eghosa Imasuen;a Nigerian writer and medical doctor and author of "Fine Boys". Eghosa's first novel "To Saint Patrick" was published by Farafina in 2008.
    The 10 day workshop which takes the form of a
    class where participants are assigned a wide
    range of reading exercises, as well as daily
    writing exercises is aimed at helping Nigerian
    writers improve their craft as well as encourage
    budding writers to embrace new and refreshing
    perspectives in the art of storytelling.
    The workshop which began in 2009 is in its 5th
    season. Binyavanga Wainana who in 2007
    declined the World Economic Forum"Young
    Global Leader" award given to people for "their
    potential to contribute to shaping the future of
    the world" has been part of the workshop since
    2009.Other writers who have participated in the
    workshop and Literary Evening include Jeffery
    Renard Allen, Robert Spillman, Ama Ata Aidoo,
    and Chika Ike.The organisers say the event
    promises to be an exciting one.
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