Tag: The Lagos Review Writing Weekend

  At Adna with a Pen – Hubaidat Ishola

The next evening, we gathered at Rovingheights for a book reading. I read an excerpt from my then-unpublished novel, The Inheritance of Days, straight from my phone. Mariam and Charity took it upon themselves to photograph me. I am not usually one to seek out a camera, but they kept adjusting angles, and insisting on one more picture.

Waiting – Azubuike Obi

For at least three times, gravity threatens to overwhelm this marvel of human invention that glides on air like a winged thing. Blood will drain from your head, and you sway. It is like an incoming state of inebriation, but without any of that soothing numbness two bottles of Heineken can elicit.

The City That Was Waiting – Mariam Mimi Abdullahi

Somewhere between those readings, shared meals and quiet conversations, the people I had met at the airport stopped feeling like strangers. The city outside the workshop continued moving in its usual Lagos way, but inside that room, I had found a slower kind of movement—the movement of ideas between people.