Arts Lounge Literary Magazine Limited in partnership with Parents for future Nigeria and the Cookingpot publishing invites the general public to the fourth online storytelling and discussion on climate change, which is scheduled to hold on saturday, the 17th of September, 2022. To moderate the discussion is professor Unoma Azuah.
Unoma Azuah, a climate activist and an editor of The Green we Left Behind, teaches English at Wiregrass Georgia Tech. She is an editor, a poet, and a novelist. She has published up to six books and some of her writing awards include the Aidoo-Synder award, Spectrum award, Leonard Trawick award and the Hellman/Hammet human rights award.
Uzor Maxim Uzoatu and Su’eddie Vershima Agema will engage the audience with their stories and also share their impressions and opinions on climate change.
Uzor Maxim Uzoatu is the only Nigerian journalist to have written an everyday column, “Today’s Maxim”, for a daily newspaper. He has been the chairman of the editorial board of a handful of Nigerian newspapers and magazines. He was the 1989 Distinguished Visitor at The Graduate School of Journalism, University of Western Ontario, Canada, and was nominated for the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2008. He wrote the narrative for Scottish photographer Owen Logan’s picture book, Masquerade: Michael Jackson Alive In Nigeria, exhibited at STILLS, Scotland’s Centre For Photography, Edinburgh from August 1 to October 26, 2014. Married with four children, he is the author of the poetry collection God of Poetry, the novel The Missing Link and the creative nonfiction book, How Not To Be A Nigerian.
Su’ur E. Su’eddie Vershima Agema (@sueddieagema on social media) is an editor, culture activist, and development worker. A Chevening, University of Sussex and Benue State University alum, Su’eddie won the Association of Nigerian Authors Prize for Poetry 2014 and was awarded the Mandela Day Short Story Prize in 2016. He was shortlisted for the inaugural SDGs Short Story Award 2021 and the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa 2018. He also has a children’s book, Once Upon a Village Tale (shortlisted for the ANA Children’s Literature Prize) and a short story collection, The Bottom of another Tale (shortlist, ANA Prize for Prose 2014 & the Abubakar Gimba Prize for Short Stories 2015). He blogs at http://sueddie.wordpress.com and is @sueddieagema on most social media platforms.
This initiative is the first of its kind in the advancement of Eco-literature in Nigeria, and will run through the month of October. Audience are encouraged to come with stories, opinions and suggestions on the issue of climate change.
To participate, register here.
