Reading by Noo Saro-Wiwa and Launch of Ken Saro-Wiwa Award
The Maynooth University Library will host a reading by author and journalist Noo Saro-Wiwa from her award-winning travel book Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, 10 November 2015.
This event marks the twentieth anniversary of the execution of Nigerian writer and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa.
Read a review of Looking for Transwonderland : http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/7437258/not-for-sissies/
Noo Saro-Wiwa will also launch the Ken Saro-Wiwa Postgraduate Award
https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/library/news/ken-saro-wiwa-award
To reserve a place Tel. 01 7083881 or e-mail [email protected] by Friday 30 October
There will be an exhibition of material from the Maynooth University Ken Saro-Wiwa Archive in the Library foyer during November. This exhibition is open to the public. Click here for library opening hours. https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/library
View items from the Ken Saro-Wiwa Archive
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22668824@N07/sets/72157636927385056/
Listen to the Ken Saro-Wiwa Audio Archive
https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/library/collections/ken-saro-wiwa-audio-archive