Umar Sidi’s The Poet of Dust is on the #LABAF2019 Books List

These are the LABAF 2019 Books. There is a purple book somewhere there.

Congratulations to Umar Abubakar Sidi’s The Poet of Dust, PEN Nigeria’s 2019 Anthology, Femi Morgan’s Renegade and others.

The Lagos Book and Art Festival is Nigeria’s leading Book Festival organised by the Committee for Relevant Art. The festival has shone its light so bright that it encouraged others to organise their own festivals in other states.

You can buy the book and others at www.baronscafe.com

#LABAF2019 #Renegade #ThePoetofDust

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