How LABAF Celebrated The 90th Birthday of A Literary Titan in 2024
When public relations consultants and in-house communication executives talk about the sponsorship of literary festivals.The question on why LABAF or the Lagos Book & Art Festsival is popular is usually the subject of meticulous analysis.In most cases,account executives in the realm of sponsorship advance arguments like the venue of the festival,as a prime tourist attraction,the bold design of the festival posters,the diversity of the programmes and the squad of ebullient volunteers that enabled the literary festival to attain in a quarter of a century the status of an international literary event.
Titles selected for the festival
This title of the celebrant Chronicles of the Land of he Happiest People on Earth offered forays into the list of other themes of the festival.Such as geopolitics,writing and readers who liked The prize,the epic quest for oil,money and power by Daniel Vergin,the seminal essay on petroleum exploration will appreciate the attention given to The Fiction Called Nigeria,the struggle for democracy by Adewale Maja-Pearce,The End of the World,Mapping the collapse of globalisation by Peter Zeiham,as well as Antjie Krog,the author of Change of Tongue and Begging To Be Black.
A reconstitution of solitary confinement
This birthday edition in honour of Prof.Wole Soyinka also presented an exhibition of cartoons,photos and press clips that recounted the circumstances that led to the choice of the title The Man Died.A prison cell reconstitution or a cage with a table,a lamp and a prisoner(or model)in penitentiary attire of the 1970s registerd this crucial message in the itinerary of the literary titan.Backed with a line-up of professionals from the Pan African University Press,Bookcraft Africa,Purple Shelves Publishing and Rainbow Publisher that recently released,Wole Soyinka, Activist and Nobel Laureate as another birthday gift in honour of one of the titans of African literature.
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