Book Launch: My Life Has a Price by Tina Okpara
Lagos Book and Art Festival
A panel discussion around the newly released memoir of Tina Okpara and the theme of abuse, rape, and how literature can fill the gap. The book My Life Has a Price (Amalion Publishing: 2012) is being introduced to the public at the 14th Lagos Book & Art Festival. Discussants include Emmanuel Iduma, Adaudo Osigwe, Dami Ajayi, Sylva Nze Ifedigbo moderated by Chris Ihidero. Produced by Saraba Magazine.
Date: Friday 16 November 2012
Time: 14.00–15.00 prompt
Venue: Freedom Park, 1 Broad Street/Hospital Road, Lagos, Nigeria
Autographed copies of the book will be available for sale at the venue at a discounted launch price of 2500 naira at the Amalion stand at the fair.
For more info see the Lagos Book and Art Festival or Saraba Magazine
In conversation: My Life Has a Price by Tina Okpara
Lagos Book and Art Festival
Tina Okpara’s memoir, MY LIFE HAS A PRICE, takes us on her 5-year journey to hell; from a loving yet poor childhood in Nigeria to the ordeal of modern-day slavery in wealthy, suburban Paris. She was only 13 when celebrity footballer, Godwin Okpara and his wife Linda, lured her father into giving her up for a supposedly better life in Europe. Tina Okpara will share from that experience, especially on writing the memoir and the healing it brings.
Date: Saturday 17 November 2012
Time: 10.00–11.45 prompt
Venue: Freedom Park, 1 Broad Street/Hospital Road, Lagos, Nigeria
Autographed copies of the book will be available for sale at the venue at a discounted launch price of 2500 naira at the Amalion stand at the fair.
For more info see the Lagos Book and Art Festival
Book Signing: My Life Has a Price by Tina Okpara
Terra Kulture
Date: Sunday 18 November 2012
Time: 15.00–17.30 prompt
Venue: Terra Kulture, Plot 1376 Tiamiyu Savage Street, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria
Autographed copies of the book will be available for sale at a discount launch price of 2500 naira at the venue.
For more info on the venue and how to get there see Terra Kulture
Migration and Children’s Rights in Africa and the Diaspora
Panel Discussion
Date: Tuesday 20 November 2012
Time: 11.00–14.00 prompt
Venue: Draper Hall, Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
Chair: Prof. Isaac Olawale Albert, Director, Institute of African Studies, Ibadan, Nigeria.
Discussants:
Dr. Willy Eselebor, Institute of African Studies, Ibadan, Nigeria.
Dr. Sola Olorunyomi, Institute of African Studies, Ibadan, Nigeria.
Mrs. Bosede Iro-Nsi, Executive Director, Women’s Rights, and Health Project, Lagos, Nigeria.
MS Tina Okpara, author of My Life Has a Price (Amalion: 2012).
Autographed copies of the book will be available for sale at a discounted launch price of 2500 naira at the venue.
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