We are pleased to invite you to our twitter space, public conversation coming up on the 26th of November, 2022. Our special guest, Cheta Igbokwe will take us through the topic: REAWAKENING THE DRAMATIC GENRE IN AFRICAN LITERATURE.

Cheta Igbokwe is an MFA candidate at the Iowa Playwrights’ Workshop, United States. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Literary Studies from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where he also edited the University of Nigeria’s students’ journal, The muse, Number 48: a Journal of Creative and Critical Writing, the oldest-surviving students’ journal in West Africa, founded by Chinua Achebe in 1963.

He is a 2019 alumnus of the Purple Hibiscus Trust Creative Writing Workshop, facilitated by the Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. He wrote the screenplay of Island of Happiness–a film which was described by the Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, as a “magnificent work of art.”

His works have appeared in Oyster River Pages, Selfies and Signatures Anthology, The Muse and elsewhere. He is the winner of the Association of Nigerian Authors’ (ANA) Prize for Drama ,2021, for his debut drama, Homecoming.

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