Read 2 Lead
Facilitators
Anwuli Ojogwu
Managing Director/Co-Founder Narrative Landscape Press Ltd
Anwuli Ojogwu is an editor with 16 years’ experience. She is also the publisher and co-founder of Narrative Landscape Press, an independent publishing company based in Lagos, Nigeria, that has published authors such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Oyinkan Braithwaite, Chibundo Onuzo, Yejide Kilanko, Marlon James, Lupita Nyong’o, among others.
In 2022, she was selected as the editor of the prestigious Caine Prize Anthology. Anwuli is also the co-founder of Society for Book and Magazine Editors of Nigeria, a non-profit that provides training and resources for editorial professionals.
Dike Chukwumerije
Managing Director, Simply Poetry Ltd
Spoken word and performance poetry artist and author
Dike is a Nigerian Spoken Word and Performance Poetry artist and an award-winning author. He has eight published books to his name including the novel, Urichindere, which won the 2013 Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) Prize for Prose Fiction and a poetry theatre production - Made In Nigeria - currently touring the country. He is Nigeria’s most prolific Performance Poet with three successful Performance Poetry videos, a live Poetry show (NSW – Night of the Spoken Word) now in its 5th year, and a theatre production (the Made in Nigeria Poetry Show) that had been successfully staged seven times – in Abuja, Lagos, Enugu, Benin – between September 2016 and May 2017. He has won several poetry grand slams in Nigeria including the maiden edition of the African Poet (Nigeria) Grand Slam competition
Dike is a Nigerian Spoken Word and Performance Poetry artist and an award-winning author. He has eight published books to his name including the novel, Urichindere, which won the 2013 Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) Prize for Prose Fiction and a poetry theatre production - Made In Nigeria - currently touring the country. He is Nigeria’s most prolific Performance Poet with three successful Performance Poetry videos, a live Poetry show (NSW – Night of the Spoken Word) now in its 5th year, and a theatre production (the Made in Nigeria Poetry Show) that had been successfully staged seven times – in Abuja, Lagos, Enugu, Benin – between September 2016 and May 2017. He has won several poetry grand slams in Nigeria including the maiden edition of the African Poet (Nigeria) Grand Slam competition
Dr. Ikechukwu Obiaya
Dean, School of Media and Communication, Pan-Atlantic University
Dr Ikechukwu Obiaya has a background in English having studied it at both the undergraduate and the master’s levels. His Ph.D. thesis is a study of the impact of state intervention, through the NFVCB, on the Nigerian film industry.
He has also carried out some studies on the audience of the Nigerian video film as well as on workers in the industry. Obiaya has a varied practical experience in the media having worked at various moments in both a broadcast house and a publishing company.
Olubunmi Aboderin Talabi
Director, The Punch Newspaper
Olubunmi Aboderin Talabi is a director of the widest circulating English language newspaper in Nigeria, THE PUNCH. She is also an author; the founder of IweMi (formerly Clever Clogs Books); the convener of the Akada Children's Book Festival; a Member of the Board of Trustees of Women in Management, Business and Public Service (WIMBIZ); a Member of the Board of Trustees of Punch Media Foundation and the Chairperson of the Association of Children's Authors & Illustrators of Nigeria.
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