Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie with Nicola Sturgeon at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
Dividing her time between Nigeria and the USA, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has become one of the world’s most internationally-respected authors. After three acclaimed novels including Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah, her most recent title, Dear Ijeawale takes the form of a series of letters to a friend about feminism and motherhood. In this event, filmed live at the 2017 Edinburgh International Book Festival, Adichie is interviewed by Scotland’s First Minister about her work and ideas.
Boyd Varty: What I learned from Nelson Mandela
In the cathedral of the wild, we get to see the best parts of ourselves reflected back to us. Boyd Varty, a wildlife activist, shares stories of animals, humans and their interrelatedness, or ubuntu -- defined as, I am, because of you. And he dedicates the talk to South African leader Nelson Mandela, the human embodiment of that same great-hearted, generous spirit.
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Feminism – The Global View
Gender equality and feminism have become increasingly central to the discourses shaping contemporary culture. This panel examines the impact of two major traveling exhibitions related to the topic: ‘Radical Women’, originated by the Hammer Museum, LA; and ‘We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85’, originated by the California African American Museum, LA. Both shows have been on view in multiple institutions worldwide and have received a great amount of media coverage. But how have these exhibitions affected individuals from the communities of the various locations they took place, and has their impact led to any positive developments?
Billie Zangewa, Artist, Johannesburg
Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Independent Curator, Los Angeles
Moderated by Maura Reilly, Curator and Arts Writer, New York
Saturday, December 8, 2018, 1pm - 2pm
Filmed on site at Art Basel in Miami Beach 2018.
TBEX North America 2019 Opening Keynote Presented by Caroline Makepeace of Ytravel
Caroline shares how she created her dream life and the lessons she learned in creating that dream life as publisher of one of the world's leading travel blogs.
A bald woman's guide to survival: Michelle Law at TEDxSouthBankWomen
Michelle is a Brisbane based screenwriter, essayist, columnist and blogger. Her work was first published in Black Inc's anthology, Growing up Asian in Australia. Since graduating with a Bachelor of Creative Writing from QUT, Michelle's fiction and non-fiction has appeared in publications such as The Lifted Brow, Stilts journal, and Penguin's Women of Letters anthology. As a screenwriter, she has worked on the story development team and written multiplatform content for Fox8's SLiDE, Box Watch, for The Lifted Brow, and is in the process of producing a short film set for production in 2013.
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
Black History Moments - Oprah Winfrey
Merze Tate Explorer Maya Daniels reports on Oprah Winfrey and her role as an inspiration to future young journalists. In spite of Oprah's hard lesson as a teen mother, her tenacity to overcome the odds and become one of the most respected women in the world is highlighted in this student-produced media series.
A Night in with William Boyd
William Boyd in conversation with Telegraph writer Mick Brown as they discuss the author's new novel, Trio, in partnership with Penguin Live.
Val McDermid & Jo Sharp: Shaping a Better Future
At last year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival, bestselling author Val McDermid and professor of geography Jo Sharp were inspired by the festival theme, We Need New Stories. So inspired, in fact, that they turned to a loveable rogues gallery of Scottish cultural folk to submit a piece of writing about their dreams for a better future. Imagine A Country is the resulting book edited by McDermid and Sharp: fascinating, eclectic and inspiring. In this 2020 Edinburgh International Book Festival Online event, Val McDermid and Jo Sharp get together to host acclaimed Scottish writers Doug Johnstone, Jo Clifford and Leila Aboulela, who read their contributions and discuss how we might create a better future for the greatest number of people.
Lola Olufemi & Minna Salami: Critical Reflections on Feminism
Since 2010, the award-winning blog MsAfropolitan has connected feminism with critical reflections on contemporary culture from an Africa-centred perspective. Its founder is Nigerian-Finnish writer and lecturer Minna Salami, a powerhouse of feminist thinking and organising whose first book of essays is Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone. Salami joins this event with writer and activist Lola Olufemi, author of Feminism, Interrupted. Olufemi is an organiser with the London Feminist Library and co-founder of FLY, Cambridge University’s network for women and non-binary people of colour.
The two writers appear in conversation with feminist historian Jade Bentil, for a discussion on the big ideas around empowerment, inclusion and activism and how (in Salami’s words) ‘we see ourselves, our history, and our world’.
Messe-Dienstag oder Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie stiehlt meinen Vlog | FBM18
Ganz spontan gibt es hier schon einmal den ersten Tag meiner Buchmessewoche – und zwar mit der vollen Ladung Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Zu dem erwähnten Ted Talk „We should all be feminists“ kommt ihr hier:
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THE LEGACY OF THE LATE PROFESSOR BEN OBUMSELU
THE LEGACY OF THE LATE PROFESSOR BEN OBUMSELU
Please join us at the Inaugural Ben Obumselu Memorial Lecture holding online on ZOOM at 4pm Nigeria time, on Thursday, August 25, 2022.
The keynote speaker is the inimitable Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, supported by the Pulitzer Prize winning Journalist and Editor Dele Olojede, Poet and Writer Prof. Niyi Osundare, Human Rights Activist Ayo Obe and many others.
Registration is free! We look forward to your participation.
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Roxane Gay Confessions of a bad feminist
Trailer #1: 7 Majors
7 Majors is a documentary dramatization of the historic night where seven majors of the Nigerian army planned and eventually executed the first coup d'etat in Nigeria's history
The PCR of Life: Hacks for Creating the Life of Your Dreams!
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Passionate People of the Adventure Travel World Summit: Omar Samra and Mountains of the Mind
Omar Samra is the first Egyptian to climb the seven summits, which included being the first Egyptian to reach the top of Everest. But Samra wasn’t invited to speak at ATWS just because he is an accomplished adventurer. All of his mountaineering ended up being training for an even bigger challenge -- the kind you can’t usually train for.
Getting serious about the green economy: social and economic tools to achieve bold climate targets
The programme for EU side events at COP26 is now available at
Whether you're planning a trip to Glasgow or joining us online, there are more than 160 events to follow over the two-week summit.
Register today and be part of the conversation.
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Richard Flanagan’s “Writing Shack” Off the Coast of Tasmania
Richard Flanagan, the winner of the 2014 Man Booker Prize for fiction, welcomes us to his house on Bruny Island, just off the southeastern coast of Tasmania.
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Guide to Getting Lost
“Not to find one's way in a city means little…But to lose one- self in a city as one loses oneself in a forest requires practice…Then the street names must call out to the lost wanderer like the snap- ping of dry twigs, and the small streets of the city-centre must reflect the time of day as clearly as the mountain hollow.”
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Felicity Aston - Keynote in Chicago
Felicity Aston the first and only woman to cross Antartica alone unaided. Remarkable motivational and inspirational speaker. This is from a recent conference given in Chicago, US.
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