Riding the Storm: The Untold Story of Africa’s Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic by Toni…
Tag: Toni Kan
Over 3 days, they will learn how to write compelling and insightful music, book and movie reviews as well as essays. Our facilitators would be led by Ellah Allfrey Wakatama, OBE, Hon. FRSL, Editor-at-large at Canongate, former deputy editor at Granta, past Booker prize and International Dublin Literary award judge and Chair of the AKO Caine Prize and thelagosreview.ng advisory board.
In telling this important story, Riding the Storm becomes more than a record of events. It is a meditation on leadership under pressure, on Africa’s capacity for self-organisation, and on what it means to act decisively when history accelerates. Kan’s prose allows the reader to feel the anxiety of the early days, the urgency of closed-door negotiations, and the quiet triumph of systems
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