Kcee To Perform At Literary Evening

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Rave of the moment, KCee will headline this year’s Literary Evening as the 2013 edition of the Creative Writing Workshop ends today, Friday 16 August.

The Limpopo crooner will serenade scores of great writers from Nigeria and overseas during an evening of book reading and fun holding at the Oriental Hotel, Lekki, Lagos.

The workshop, in its fifth season, is sponsored by Nigerian Breweries Plc and facilitated by Chimamanda Adichie, Nigeria’s celebrated international writer and Farafina Trust.

Among writers expected at the event aside Chimamanda Adichie are Kenyan writer, Binyavanga Wainaina, the 2012 winner of Caine Prize, for his short story: Discovering Home; Aslak SiraMyhre; a Norwegian politician and former party leader of Red Electoral Alliance (RV) who left politics to become an Executive Director of !les, an association to stimulate children and youth to read more; and Eghosa Imasuen, a Nigerian writer and medical doctor and author of Fine Boys.

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The 10-day workshop is aimed at helping Nigerian writers improve their craft as well as encourage budding writers to embrace new and refreshing perspectives in the art of storytelling.

Other writers who have participated in the workshop and Literary Evening include Jeffery Renard Allen, Robert Spillman, Ama Ata Aidoo, and Chika Ike.

The organisers say the event promises to be an exciting one.

–Funsho Arogundade

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