Come 3rd July, 2020, Ismail Bala, whose book, LINE OF SIGHT, was recently released by Praxis Books will be joining a constellation of brilliantly invited Artists (Writers, Visual Arts, Musicians), Academics & Activists to converse with each other – and the virtual audience all around the globe to participate in the BIGSAS Festival of African and African Diasporic Literatures organised by Prof. Dr. Susan Arndt, Universität Bayreuth, Germany.
He will be reading in the session titled: Reading for Solidarity and Care together with distinguished poets in the persons of Dilan Zoe Smida (Literature and Media Studies, MA, University of Bayreuth, Germany) and Mr. Reed (Celebrated New York-American Artist/Poet).
This year’s edition is the African Multiple Cluster: Digital Literature Festival dubbed “Care, Responsibility and Solidarity: Narrating Resistance in African and African-Diasporic Arts, Academia and Activism”.
Join the session HERE
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To find out more about the Kano Poet, read the short bio below and get a copy of his first full length poetry collection recently released by Praxis Books:
Ismail Bala, author of Line of Sight (Praxis Books, 2020) writes in English and Hausa. His poetry and translations have appeared in the UK, the USA, Canada, India and South Africa, in journals such as Poetry Review, Ambit, New Coin, Okike, A Review of International English Literature and Aura Literary Arts Review. Born and educated to university level in Kano, he did his post-graduate studies at Oxford. He is a Fellow of the International Writing Programme of the University of Iowa.
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