Today at The #AkeFestival2019

AKE FESTIVAL DAY 3 PROGRAMME:

Saturday 26th October:
9:20-10:20 am

*Panel Discussion:
Eliminating Sexual
Violence in
Public/Private
Spaces

Damilola Marcus
Ayodeji Osowobi
Zethu Matebeni

Moderator:
Azeenarh
Mohammed

*Panel Discussion:
The Long of the
Short Story

Jennifer Makumbi
Billy Kahora
Chika Unigwe

Moderator:
Toni Kan

10:30-11:40 am

*Panel Discussion:
Roots and
Representation:
Black Women in Film

Adepero Oduye
Dakore Akande
Nadine Ibrahim

Moderator:
Ayodeji Rotinwa

*Panel Discussion
Looking Back on
Four Hundred
Years of Slavery

Adrian Harewood
Nichelle Smith
Nicole Dennis-Benn

Moderator:
Gary Younge

11:50-12:50pm

*Book Chat:

Uzodinma Iweala
Thando Mgqolozana

Host:
Kinna Likimani

*Interview:

Yolande Mukagasana

Moderator:
Wana Udobang

1:00-2:10 pm

*Panel Discussion:
Scars, Body
Modification &
Self/Social Acceptance

Adetutu Alabi
Adenike Oyetunde
Chidera Muoka

Moderator:
Wana Udobang

2:20-3:20 pm

*Book Chat:

Bernardine Evaristo
Nicole Dennis-Benn

Host:
Kọlá Túbọsún

1:00-3:20 pm

*Film Screening:
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I am

3:30-4:40 pm

*Book Chat:

Mohale Mashigo
Leye Adenle

Host:
Ayodele
Morocco-Clarke

*Film Screening:

Malika
To Be Free
Accent
Marked

*Eat the Book
With Ozoz Sokoh

4:50-5:50 pm

*Panel Discussion:
The Gender Binary
and Everything In
Between

Emmanuela David-Ette
Babalwa Mtshawu
Tom

Moderator:
Arit Okpo

*Panel Discussion:
Teetering on the
Brink: Religious
Extremism in
Nigeria

Ebenezer Obadare
Abdulbasit Kassim
Jibrin Ibrahim

Moderator:
Olaokun Soyinka

6:00-7:00 pm

*Book Chat:
Fred Khumalo
Wayétu Moore

Host:
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim

*Panel Discussion:
Pan-Africanism,
A Fantasy?

Hakim Adi
Samia Nkrumah
Seada Hussen

Host:
Joseph Ike

8:00-10:00 pm

*Performance
Dubbin Poetry

D’bi Anitafrica
Electrifying, haunting
Dub Poetry in lyrical,
no-holds-barred,
in-your-face style

*Performance
Whumanizer
Tope Tedela

Tunde Briggs navigates
feminism, misandry,
misogyny and the
gender wars in this
thought-provoking
one man play

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