Aké Arts and Book Festival X The African Imaginary 2025

20 November 2025. Collaboration with the 12th edition of Åke Book Festival in Lagos, Nigeria, founded by author, publisher, bookstore owner and the ultimate community creator, Lola Shoneyin.

The African Imaginary held a dinner for 100 people at Ikeja’s hot-spot IKOKO, where we introduced our work to festival headliners and friends of Ake who made up the fantastic audience. As numbers for our dinner swelled during the planning stage, Lola laughed and said, “In West Africa you need to make space for amazing people who will just arrive!” Here’s to new ways of doing things, and to blowing the world of The African Imaginary wide open!

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