Imported Event 1

Introduction - Michael O'Driscoll

Host, Dr. Uche Peter Umezurike

Welcome, introduction and brief bios of the guest writers.

Titilope Sonuga reads the poem Interrogators of Orchids by Maggie Smith

Ifeoma Chinwuba reads the poem The Solitary Reaper by William Wordsworth

William WordsworthThe Solitary ReaperLines Written a Few Miles above Tintern AbbeyOde: Intimations of Immorality from Recollections of Early Childhood

Titilope Sonuga on literary influences

Maggie SmithMabel SegunBuche EmechetaToni MorrisonSonia SanchezMaya Angelou

Ifeoma Chinwuba on literary influences

Ifeoma Chinwuba reads an excerpt from African Romance

Titilope Sonuga reads the poem Missing

Titilope Sonuga reads the poem Missing from the collection This Is How We Disappear

Titilope Sonuga on how literature can incite conversation

Question from the Host: How can we get literature to incite more conversation and awareness about the commodification of women?

Ifeoma Chinwuba on how literature can incite conversation

Question from the Host: How can we get literature to incite more conversation and awareness about the commodification of women?

Titilope Sonuga reads an untitled poem

Ifeoma Chinwuba reads an excerpt from Waiting for Maria

Questions from event registrants

Host, Dr. Uche Peter Umezurike, invites questions from event registrants.

Closing

Closing: Host, Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike, thanks the guests and Michael O'Driscoll makes closing remarks.