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
#Akefestival Specials:
Mo Abudu challenges gender stereotypes
Yesterday was Day 2 of the Ake Festival event and in the midst of the series of amazing activities featured at the literary enclave, there was a panel session that received a little more excitement than usual.
The panel session in question dealt with
Corporate Africa’ and
featured media mogul, Mo Abudu alongside Northern entrepreneur
Amal Hassan, facilitated by the convener of the Ake Festival, Lola Shoneyin.
The session addressed the stereotypes given to successful female entrepreneurs and how to rise above it, the struggle of being female in a male-dominated industry and many other pertinent concerns in today’s skewed business landscape.
Mo Abudu explained that her predisposition to employing more women than men was not only to give women more representation but was due to a track record she had noticed overtime; women were more committed at their jobs than men.
Amal Hassan alluded to the same thing, saying that a series of qualities she insists on before employing anyone always brought in more women than men.
When asked for their most degrading moments in navigating this landscape, Amal remembered a time when she showed up for a meeting for ‘bosses’ and was summarily approached by someone who whispered, “this seat is for your boss” at which she instantly replied, “I am the boss.”
Mo Abudu on the other hand, went for the naysayers, especially the ones who were somehow convinced that she must have exchanged sexual favours for her ‘unexplained’ advancement. Her advise was to ignore them, saying those who could muster up such accusations were most likely not building anything for themselves and didn’t believe it was possible without playing dirty.
“If you think that I am sleeping around to get this far ahead, then I must be very good at it,” she joked.
The session ended with the trio dishing out general advice to young men and developing it into an acronym for them to remember; HIR.
*Honesty
*Integrity and
*Respecting Women
LABAF2019 – FILM SCREENING @Kongi’s Harvest
Not one but three films will be screened at this year’s Lagos Book and Art Festival (LABAF2019). DANCING MASK (54mins), a documentary film about the history and activities of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), is one of them. It tells the story of how the association was founded in 1981 by the late novelist Professor Chinua Achebe with support from Wole Soyinka and other first generation of Nigerian writers. In this documentary, director Tee Jay Dan interviews both old and young writers including first generation writers like Mabel Segun and Professor Kole Omotoso. The film highlights the significance of ANA and the association’s contribution to the development of literature and democracy in Nigeria.
(Produced by iREP International Documentary Film Forum)
Date: Sunday, Nov 10, 2019
Time: 11 am
Venue: Kongi’s Harvest Art Gallery, Freedom Park, Lagos
Don’t miss #Labaf2019
